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Gapless spin liquid in a square-kagome lattice antiferromagnet

Authors :
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
Source :
Nature Communications, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-7 (2020)
Publication Year :
2020
Publisher :
Nature Portfolio, 2020.

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.

Subjects

Subjects :
Science

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
20411723
Volume :
11
Issue :
1
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Nature Communications
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.615c9db15fba4ee48f1b1c93a0788f42
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17235-z