Nature Communications (Oct 2017)
Coulomb spin liquid in anion-disordered pyrochlore Tb2Hf2O7
- Romain Sibille,
- Elsa Lhotel,
- Monica Ciomaga Hatnean,
- Gøran J. Nilsen,
- Georg Ehlers,
- Antonio Cervellino,
- Eric Ressouche,
- Matthias Frontzek,
- Oksana Zaharko,
- Vladimir Pomjakushin,
- Uwe Stuhr,
- Helen C. Walker,
- Devashibhai T. Adroja,
- Hubertus Luetkens,
- Chris Baines,
- Alex Amato,
- Geetha Balakrishnan,
- Tom Fennell,
- Michel Kenzelmann
Affiliations
- Romain Sibille
- Laboratory for Scientific Developments and Novel Materials, Paul Scherrer Institut
- Elsa Lhotel
- Institut Néel, CNRS–Université Grenoble Alpes
- Monica Ciomaga Hatnean
- Physics Department, University of Warwick
- Gøran J. Nilsen
- Institut Laue-Langevin
- Georg Ehlers
- Quantum Condensed Matter Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Antonio Cervellino
- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut
- Eric Ressouche
- Université Grenoble Alpes, CEA INAC, MEM
- Matthias Frontzek
- Laboratory for Neutron Scattering and Imaging, Paul Scherrer Institut
- Oksana Zaharko
- Laboratory for Neutron Scattering and Imaging, Paul Scherrer Institut
- Vladimir Pomjakushin
- Laboratory for Neutron Scattering and Imaging, Paul Scherrer Institut
- Uwe Stuhr
- Laboratory for Neutron Scattering and Imaging, Paul Scherrer Institut
- Helen C. Walker
- ISIS Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton
- Devashibhai T. Adroja
- ISIS Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton
- Hubertus Luetkens
- Laboratory for Muon Spin Spectroscopy, Paul Scherrer Institut
- Chris Baines
- Laboratory for Muon Spin Spectroscopy, Paul Scherrer Institut
- Alex Amato
- Laboratory for Muon Spin Spectroscopy, Paul Scherrer Institut
- Geetha Balakrishnan
- Physics Department, University of Warwick
- Tom Fennell
- Laboratory for Neutron Scattering and Imaging, Paul Scherrer Institut
- Michel Kenzelmann
- Laboratory for Scientific Developments and Novel Materials, Paul Scherrer Institut
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00905-w
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 8,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
Experimental studies of frustrated spin systems such as pyrochlore magnetic oxides test our understanding of quantum many-body physics. Here the authors show experimentally that Tb2Hf2O7 may be a model material for investigating how structural disorder can stabilize a quantum spin liquid phase.
