Evidence for pressure induced unconventional quantum criticality in the coupled spin ladder antiferromagnet C9H18N2CuBr4

There is a class of quantum phase transitions that do not fit into the traditional Landau paradigm, but are described in terms of fractionalized degrees of freedom and emergent gauge fields. Hong et al. find evidence of such a transition in a molecular spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic ladder compound unde...

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Main Authors: Tao Hong, Tao Ying, Qing Huang, Sachith E. Dissanayake, Yiming Qiu, Mark M. Turnbull, Andrey A. Podlesnyak, Yan Wu, Huibo Cao, Yaohua Liu, Izuru Umehara, Jun Gouchi, Yoshiya Uwatoko, Masaaki Matsuda, David A. Tennant, Gia-Wei Chern, Kai P. Schmidt, Stefan Wessel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30769-8