Anisotropic magnetic interactions in a candidate Kitaev spin liquid close to a metal-insulator transition

In the Kitaev honeycomb model, spins coupled by strongly-frustrated anisotropic interactions do not order at low temperature but instead form a quantum spin liquid with spin fractionalisation into Majorana fermions and static fluxes. The realization of such a model in crystalline materials could lea...

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Main Authors: Ma, Z, Ni, D, Kaib, DAS, MacFarquharson, K, Pearce, JS, Cava, RJ, Valentí, R, Coldea, R, Coldea, AI
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Nature Research 2024