Nature Communications (May 2020)

Evidence for a three-dimensional quantum spin liquid in PbCuTe2O6

  • Shravani Chillal,
  • Yasir Iqbal,
  • Harald O. Jeschke,
  • Jose A. Rodriguez-Rivera,
  • Robert Bewley,
  • Pascal Manuel,
  • Dmitry Khalyavin,
  • Paul Steffens,
  • Ronny Thomale,
  • A. T. M. Nazmul Islam,
  • Johannes Reuther,
  • Bella Lake

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15594-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Quantum spin liquids have magnetic moments that do not form magnetic order even as the temperature approaches zero, leading to the dominance of quantum fluctuations. Chillal et al. present evidence that the hyper-hyperkagome lattice of PbCuTe2O6 hosts a three-dimensional quantum spin liquid.