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有效自旋为1/2 Ce2Zr2O7烧绿石中三维量子自旋液体的实验特征

Experimental signatures of a three-dimensional quantum spin liquid in effective spin-1/2 Ce2Zr2O7 pyrochlore

Bin Gao, Tong Chen, David W. Tam, Chien-Lung Huang, Kalyan Sasmal, Devashibhai T. Adroja, Feng Ye, Huibo Cao, Gabriele Sala, Matthew B. Stone, Christopher Baine… 展开作者

Bin Gao, Tong Chen, David W. Tam, Chien-Lung Huang, Kalyan Sasmal, Devashibhai T. Adroja, Feng Ye, Huibo Cao, Gabriele Sala, Matthew B. Stone, Christopher Baines, Joel A. T. Barker, Haoyu Hu, Jae-Ho Chung, Xianghan Xu, Sang-Wook Cheong, Manivannan Nallaiyan, Stefano Spagna, M. Brian Maple, Andriy H. Nevidomskyy, Emilia Morosan, Gang Chen, Pengcheng Dai

摘要:

量子自旋液体(quantum spin liquid,QSL)是一种物质状态,其中固体中未成对电子的自旋是量子纠缠的,但在零温度极限下不显示磁序。由于这种状态可能对高转变温度超导性的微观起源很重要,并且对量子计算很有用,因此QSL的实验实现是凝聚态物理长期追求的目标。虽然在二维(2D)自旋1/2 kagome晶格ZnCu 3(OD)6Cl 2和有效自旋1/2三角晶格YbMgGaO 4上的中子散射实验已经发现了连续磁激发的证据,但在非常低的温度下,QSL携带“分数量子激发”的标志,磁性和非磁性化学无序使数据的解释变得复杂。最近,三维(3D)的Ce 3+烧绿石晶格Ce 2Sn 2 O 7已被建议作为一个干净的,有效的自旋1/2 QSL候选人,但没有证据表明自旋激发连续。在这里,我们使用的热力学,μ子自旋弛豫(μ SR),和中子散射实验的单晶Ce 2 Zr 2 O 7,化合物同构Ce 2Sn 2 O 7,以证明不存在磁有序和自旋激发连续在35 mK的存在下,与预期的QSL一致。由于我们对Ce 2 Zr 2 O 7的中子衍射和漫散射测量没有发现在其他高温超导体中看到的氧缺陷和磁/磁离子无序的证据,Ce 2 Zr 2 O 7可能是具有最小磁和磁化学无序的3D QSL材料的第一个例子。

英文摘要:

A quantum spin liquid (QSL) is a state of matter where unpaired electrons' spins in a solid are quantum entangled, but do not show magnetic order in the zero-temperature limit. Because such a state may be important to the microscopic origin of high-transition temperature superconductivity and useful for quantum computation, the experimental realization of QSL is a long-sought goal in condensed matter physics. Although neutron scattering experiments on the two-dimensional (2D) spin-1/2 kagome-lattice ZnCu3(OD)6Cl2 and effective spin-1/2 triangular lattice YbMgGaO4 have found evidence for a continuum of magnetic excitations, the hallmark of a QSL carrying 'fractionalized quantum excitations', at very low temperature, magnetic and nonmagnetic site chemical disorder complicates the interpretation of the data. Recently, the three-dimensional (3D) Ce3+ pyrochlore lattice Ce2Sn2O7 has been suggested as a clean, effective spin-1/2 QSL candidate, but there is no evidence of a spin excitation continuum. Here we use thermodynamic, muon spin relaxation (μ SR), and neutron scattering experiments on single crystals of Ce2Zr2O7, a compound isostructural to Ce2Sn2O7, to demonstrate the absence of magnetic ordering and the presence of a spin excitation continuum at 35 mK, consistent with the expectation of a QSL. Since our neutron diffraction and diffuse scattering measurements on Ce2Zr2O7 reveal no evidence of oxygen deficiency and magnetic/nonmagnetic ion disorder as seen in other pyrochlores, Ce2Zr2O7 may be the first example of a 3D QSL material with minimum magnetic and nonmagnetic chemical disorder.

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