Incommensurate charge super-modulation and hidden dipole order in layered kitaev material α-RuCl3

Abstract The magnetism of Kitaev materials has been widely studied, but their charge properties and the coupling to other degrees of freedom are less known. Here we investigate the charge states of α-RuCl3, a promising Kitaev quantum spin liquid candidate, in proximity to graphite. We discover that...

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Main Authors: Xiaohu Zheng, Zheng-Xin Liu, Cuiwei Zhang, Huaxue Zhou, Chongli Yang, Youguo Shi, Katsumi Tanigaki, Rui-Rui Du
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-52019-9