Nature Communications (Feb 2016)

Quantum electric-dipole liquid on a triangular lattice

  • Shi-Peng Shen,
  • Jia-Chuan Wu,
  • Jun-Da Song,
  • Xue-Feng Sun,
  • Yi-Feng Yang,
  • Yi-Sheng Chai,
  • Da-Shan Shang,
  • Shou-Guo Wang,
  • James F. Scott,
  • Young Sun

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10569
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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In magnetic materials, geometry-defined competing interactions between spins combined with quantum fluctuations can present the possibility of quantum liquid states which do not order even as 0K is approached. Here, the authors present an analogue built from electric dipoles on a triangular lattice.