Spin-Induced Optical Conductivity in the Spin-Liquid Candidate Herbertsmithite

We report a direct measurement of the low-frequency optical conductivity of large-area single-crystal herbertsmithite, a promising spin-liquid candidate material, by means of terahertz time-domain spectroscopy. In the spectral range below 1.4 THz, we observe a contribution to the real part of the in...

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Main Authors: Han, Tianheng, Shrekenhamer, D., Padilla, W. J., Pilon, Daniel Victor, Lui, Chun Hung, Frenzel, Alex James, Lee, Young S., Gedik, Nuh
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/84975
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2257-9944
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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7406-5283
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7022-8313