Nature Communications (Jul 2020)
Gapless spin liquid in a square-kagome lattice antiferromagnet
- Masayoshi Fujihala,
- Katsuhiro Morita,
- Richard Mole,
- Setsuo Mitsuda,
- Takami Tohyama,
- Shin-ichiro Yano,
- Dehong Yu,
- Shigetoshi Sota,
- Tomohiko Kuwai,
- Akihiro Koda,
- Hirotaka Okabe,
- Hua Lee,
- Shinichi Itoh,
- Takafumi Hawai,
- Takatsugu Masuda,
- Hajime Sagayama,
- Akira Matsuo,
- Koichi Kindo,
- Seiko Ohira-Kawamura,
- Kenji Nakajima
Affiliations
- Masayoshi Fujihala
- Tokyo University of Science, Department of Physics
- Katsuhiro Morita
- Tokyo University of Science, Department of Applied Physics
- Richard Mole
- Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
- Setsuo Mitsuda
- Tokyo University of Science, Department of Physics
- Takami Tohyama
- Tokyo University of Science, Department of Applied Physics
- Shin-ichiro Yano
- National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center
- Dehong Yu
- Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
- Shigetoshi Sota
- Computational Materials Science Research Team, RIKEN Center for Computational Science
- Tomohiko Kuwai
- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, University of Toyama
- Akihiro Koda
- Muon Science Laboratory and Condensed Matter Research Center, Institute of Materials Structure Science, High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation
- Hirotaka Okabe
- Muon Science Laboratory and Condensed Matter Research Center, Institute of Materials Structure Science, High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation
- Hua Lee
- Muon Science Laboratory and Condensed Matter Research Center, Institute of Materials Structure Science, High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation
- Shinichi Itoh
- Neutron Science Division, Institute of Materials Structure Science, High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation
- Takafumi Hawai
- Neutron Science Division, Institute of Materials Structure Science, High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation
- Takatsugu Masuda
- Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo
- Hajime Sagayama
- Synchrotron Radiation Science Division 1 and Center for Integrative Quantum Beam Science, Institute of Materials Structure Science, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization
- Akira Matsuo
- International MegaGauss Science Laboratory, Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo
- Koichi Kindo
- International MegaGauss Science Laboratory, Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo
- Seiko Ohira-Kawamura
- Materials and Life Science Division, J-PARC Center
- Kenji Nakajima
- Materials and Life Science Division, J-PARC Center
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17235-z
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 11,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 7
Abstract
There exist many theoretical models of frustrated quantum magnetism, most of which lack convincing experimental realisations. Here the authors combine several experimental methods to argue that KCu6AlBiO4(SO4)5Cl behaves as a square-kagome-lattice quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnet.
