Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Quantum-disordered state of magnetic and electric dipoles in an organic Mott system

  • M. Shimozawa,
  • K. Hashimoto,
  • A. Ueda,
  • Y. Suzuki,
  • K. Sugii,
  • S. Yamada,
  • Y. Imai,
  • R. Kobayashi,
  • K. Itoh,
  • S. Iguchi,
  • M. Naka,
  • S. Ishihara,
  • H. Mori,
  • T. Sasaki,
  • M. Yamashita

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01849-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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The organic material κ-H3(Cat-EDT-TTF)2 has been suggested to exhibit a quantum spin liquid phase in which quantum fluctuations prevent the formation of magnetic order. Here, the authors show that this may be a result of fluctuations of hydrogen atoms, rather than more conventional geometric frustration.