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一种新的自旋各向异性谐振蜂窝状铱酸盐

A new spin-anisotropic harmonic honeycomb iridate

Kimberly A. Modic, Tess E. Smidt, Itamar Kimchi, Nicholas P. Breznay, Alun Biffin, Sungkyun Choi, Roger D. Johnson, Radu Coldea, Pilanda Watkins-Curry, Gregory … 展开作者

Kimberly A. Modic, Tess E. Smidt, Itamar Kimchi, Nicholas P. Breznay, Alun Biffin, Sungkyun Choi, Roger D. Johnson, Radu Coldea, Pilanda Watkins-Curry, Gregory T. McCandless, Felipe Gandara, Z. Islam, Ashvin Vishwanath, Julia Y. Chan, Arkady Shekhter, Ross D. McDonald, James G. Analytis

摘要:

莫特绝缘体的物理学是从高温超导到奇异磁性等各种现象的基础。虽然电子自旋和定域轨道的结构在这个物理学中起着关键作用,但在大多数系统中,它们只是间接地联系在一起--通过泡利不相容原理和库仑相互作用。铱基氧化物(铱酸盐)通过引入强的自旋-轨道相互作用为这个问题打开了另一个维度,使得莫特物理具有强的轨道特征。在层状蜂窝状虹彩中,这被认为会产生高度自旋各向异性的相互作用,将自旋取向耦合到给定的空间交换方向,并导致强烈的受抑磁性。从这种相互作用中产生新物理的潜力已经引起了许多科学上的兴奋,最近在寻找新的量子自旋液体,首先由Kitaev \cite{kitaev_anyons_2006}讨论。在这里,我们报告了一个新的铱酸盐结构,具有相同的局部连接的分层蜂窝,但在一个三维的框架。磁化率的温度依赖性表现出惊人的磁各向异性的重新排序,提供证据的高度自旋各向异性交换相互作用。此外,这种材料的基本结构单元表明了一种新的结构家族的可能性,即“谐波蜂窝”铱酸盐。因此,这种化合物提供了一个独特的和令人兴奋的一瞥到一类新的强自旋轨道耦合莫特绝缘体的物理。

英文摘要:

The physics of Mott insulators underlies diverse phenomena ranging from high temperature superconductivity to exotic magnetism. Although both the electron spin and the structure of the local orbitals play a key role in this physics, in most systems these are connected only indirectly --- via the Pauli exclusion principle and the Coulomb interaction. Iridium-based oxides (iridates) open a further dimension to this problem by introducing strong spin-orbit interactions, such that the Mott physics has a strong orbital character. In the layered honeycomb iridates this is thought to generate highly spin-anisotropic interactions, coupling the spin orientation to a given spatial direction of exchange and leading to strongly frustrated magnetism. The potential for new physics emerging from such interactions has driven much scientific excitement, most recently in the search for a new quantum spin liquid, first discussed by Kitaev \cite{kitaev_anyons_2006}. Here we report a new iridate structure that has the same local connectivity as the layered honeycomb, but in a three-dimensional framework. The temperature dependence of the magnetic susceptibility exhibits a striking reordering of the magnetic anisotropy, giving evidence for highly spin-anisotropic exchange interactions. Furthermore, the basic structural units of this material suggest the possibility of a new family of structures, the `harmonic honeycomb' iridates. This compound thus provides a unique and exciting glimpse into the physics of a new class of strongly spin-orbit coupled Mott insulators.

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