Coulomb spin liquid in anion-disordered pyrochlore Tb2Hf2O7

Experimental studies of frustrated spin systems such as pyrochlore magnetic oxides test our understanding of quantum many-body physics. Here the authors show experimentally that Tb2Hf2O7 may be a model material for investigating how structural disorder can stabilize a quantum spin liquid phase.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Romain Sibille, Elsa Lhotel, Monica Ciomaga Hatnean, Gøran J. Nilsen, Georg Ehlers, Antonio Cervellino, Eric Ressouche, Matthias Frontzek, Oksana Zaharko, Vladimir Pomjakushin, Uwe Stuhr, Helen C. Walker, Devashibhai T. Adroja, Hubertus Luetkens, Chris Baines, Alex Amato, Geetha Balakrishnan, Tom Fennell, Michel Kenzelmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00905-w