Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

Kosterlitz-Thouless melting of magnetic order in the triangular quantum Ising material TmMgGaO4

  • Han Li,
  • Yuan Da Liao,
  • Bin-Bin Chen,
  • Xu-Tao Zeng,
  • Xian-Lei Sheng,
  • Yang Qi,
  • Zi Yang Meng,
  • Wei Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14907-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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TmMgGaO4 is one of a number of recently-synthesized quantum magnets that are proposed to realize important theoretical models. Here the authors demonstrate the agreement between detailed experimental measurements and state-of-the-art predictions based on the 2D transverse-field triangular lattice Ising model.