A molecular Mott insulator $κ$-(ET)$_2$B(CN)$_4$ [ET = bis(ethylenedithio)tetrathiafulvalene] with a distorted triangular lattice exhibits a quantum disordered state with gapped spin excitation in the ground state. $^{13}$C nuclear magnetic resonance, magnetization, and magnetic torque measurements reveal that magnetic field suppresses valence bond order and induces long-range magnetic order above a critical field $\sim 8$ T. The nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate $1/T_1$ shows persistent evolution of antiferromagnetic correlation above the transition temperature, highlighting a quantum spin liquid state with fractional excitations. The field-induced transition as observed in the spin-Peierls phase suggests that the valence bond order transition is driven through renormalized one-dimensionality and spin-lattice coupling.
The stability of a magnetic skyrmion crystal in a centrosymmetric orthorhombic lattice system is numerically investigated. By performing the simulated annealing for an effective spin model with the momentum-resolved interaction on a uniaxially distorted triangular lattice, we find that the skyrmion crystal is robustly realized when dominant interaction channels consist of the double-$Q$ structure in momentum space. Moreover, we show that an anti-type skyrmion crystal with the opposite skyrmion number is obtained by tuning the sign of the bond-dependent anisotropic exchange interaction that ori…
Site-specific $^{13}$C NMR study on locally distorted triangular lattice of organic conductor $κ$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$Cu$_2$(CN)$_3$
为了验证几何挫折的影响，我们人为扭曲的三角形晶格准二维有机导体$κ$ -（BEDT-TTF）$_2$铜$_2$（CN）$_3$ [BEDT-TTF：双（亚乙基二硫代）四硫富瓦烯]通过类似的分子取代和应用$^{13}$ C NMR的散装和取代的网站，电导率，静态磁化率测量。结果表明，取代样品的磁特性与纯样品的磁特性在数量上相似。此外，在替代位置处的磁特性也与体中相同。这些结果表明，所观察到的磁性可能不是由于几何挫折，但无序的重要性。
Crystal growth and magnetic properties of spin-$1/2$ distorted triangular lattice antiferromagnet CuLa$_2$Ge$_2$O$_8$
Technische Universität Berlin（柏林工业大学）；Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie（柏林亥姆霍兹材料能源中心）；Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO)（澳大利亚核科学与技术组织）
In the quest for materials with unconventional quantum phases, the organic triangular-lattice antiferromagnet $κ$-(ET)$_2$Cu$_2$(CN)$_3$ has been extensively discussed as a quantum spin liquid (QSL) candidate. Recently, an intriguing quantum critical behaviour was suggested from low-temperature magnetic torque experiments. Through microscopic analysis of all anisotropic contributions, including Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya and multi-spin scalar chiral interactions, we highlight significant deviations of the experimental observations from a quantum critical scenario. Instead, we show that disorder-ind…
We study the triangular-lattice Ising model with dipolar interactions, inspired by its realisation in artificial arrays of nanomagnets. We show that a classical spin-liquid forms at intermediate temperatures, and that its behaviour can be tuned by temperature and/or a small lattice distortion between a string Luttinger liquid and a domain-wall-network state. At low temperature there is a transition into a magnetically ordered phase, which can be first-order or continous with a crossover in the critical behaviour between Pokrovsky-Talapov and 2D-Ising universality. When the Pokrovsky-Talapov cr…
The magnetization and specific heat measurements have been performed on single-crystalline Gd_3_Ru_4_Al_12_ with a distorted Kagome lattice structure. This spin system is regarded as an antiferromagnetic triangular lattice of XY like Heisenberg model at low temperatures. The magnetic phase diagrams indicate the existence of frustration and Z_2_ degeneracy. The magnetization and specific heat imply the successive phase transitions with partial disorder and a T-shaped spin structure in the ground state.
Canted ferromagnetic order in a distorted triangular-lattice magnet Na$_2$SrCo(VO$_4$)$_2$
School of Physics, Beihang University（北京航空航天大学物理学院）；Department of Nuclear Physics, China Institute of Atomic Energy（中国原子能科学研究院核物理研究所）；Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院物理研究所凝聚态物理国家实验室）；Spallation Neutron Source Science Center（散裂中子源科学中心）；Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory（松山湖材料实验室）；State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, School of Physics, Peking University（北京大学物理学院介观物理国家重点实验室）
Electric-field driven flat bands in the distorted sawtooth chain via the Katsura-Nagaosa-Balatsky mechanism
Yerevan State University（埃里温国立大学）；CANDLE, Synchrotron Research Institute（CANDLE 同步辐射研究所）；Institute of Applied Problems of Physics（应用物理问题研究所）；University of Augsburg（奥格斯堡大学）；Andronikashvili Institute of Physics, Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University（贾瓦希什维利第比利斯国立大学安德罗尼卡什维利物理研究所）
The Heisenberg model on a face center cubic (fcc) lattice is a typical three-dimensional frustrated spin system expected to have magnetization plateaus and supersolid phases. There are model compounds $A_2$CoTeO$_6$ ($A$ = Ca, Sr, Pb) for the fcc lattice but with lattice distortions. Motivated by the presence of the compounds, we investigate the ground state of the spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on a tetragonally distorted fcc lattice in the magnetic field using a large-size cluster mean-field method for the sake of finding new supersolid phases. We find five supersolid phases in …
We show that short-range resonating-valence-bond correlations and long-range order can coexist in the ground state (GS) of a frustrated spin system. Our study comprises a comprehensive investigation of the quantum magnetism on the structurally disorder-free single crystal of Cu$_2$(OH)$_3$NO$_3$, which realizes the $s$ = 1/2 Heisenberg model on a spatially anisotropic triangular lattice. Competing exchange interactions determined by fitting the magnetization measured up to 55 T give rise to an exotic GS wavefunction with coexistence of the dominant short-range resonating-valence-bond correlati…
From magnetism to one-dimensional spin liquid in the anisotropic triangular lattice
我们研究了从解耦的一维链插入到各向同性三角晶格的各向异性三角晶格，并且已被认为与各种准二维材料相关，例如Cs $_2$ CuCl $_4$或$κ$ -（ET）$_2$ Cu $_2$（CN）$_3$，一种显示出有趣磁性的有机材料。我们得到了一个很好的精度通过一个新的表示的共振价键波函数与单重和三重配对。这种方法使我们能够建立，磁秩序是迅速破坏远离纯三角晶格和无公度自旋相关的短范围。非磁性自旋液体自然出现在相图的宽范围内，具有很强的一维特征。还讨论了$κ$ -（ET）$_2$ Cu $_2$（CN）$_3$的三重配对的相关性。
Entanglement Entropy and Topological Order in Resonating Valence-Bond Quantum Spin Liquids
在三角晶格和kagome晶格上，利用新近发展的Pfronan Monte Carlo方法，可以对短程共振价键（RVB）波函数进行无符号采样。本文利用复制技巧方法研究了这些波函数中的Renyi纠缠熵。使用各种空间二分区，包括莱文文建设，我们的有限大小缩放Renyi熵给出了拓扑贡献一致的$γ= \text{ln}(2)$，如预期的带隙$\mathbb{Z}_{2}$量子自旋液体。我们证明了互统计与环面码任意子模型是一致的，并排除了任何其他准粒子统计，如双半子模型。
Inelastic neutron scattering studies in single crystals of TbInO3 and TbIn0.95Mn0.05O3 with nearly-triangular antiferromagnetic lattice are reported. At low energies, a broad and apparently gapless continuum of magnetic excitations, located at the triangular lattice (TL) Brillouin zone boundary, is observed. The data are well described by the uncorrelated nearest-neighbor valence bonds model. At higher energies, a broad excitation branch dispersing from the TL zone boundary is observed. No signs of static magnetic order are found down to the temperatures two orders of magnitude smaller than th…
Swirling topological spin configurations, known as magnetic skyrmions, are known to be stabilised in chiral ferromagnets with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). In particular, for appropriate values of the external magnetic field they appear in a topological crystalline phase, termed Skyrmion crystal phase (SkX). A similar phenomenon is present in the antiferromagnetic case, for the Heisenberg triangular antiferromagnet (HTAF) with DMI. Here, the most striking feature is that the emergent topological phase consists of three SkX interpenetrated sublattices. On the other hand, the pure HTA…
The Ising triangular lattice remains the classic test-case for frustrated magnetism. Here we report neutron scattering measurements of short range magnetic order in CuMnO$_2$, which consists of a distorted lattice of Mn$^{3+}$ spins with single-ion anisotropy. Physical property measurements on CuMnO$_2$ are consistent with 1D correlations caused by anisotropic orbital occupation. However the diffuse magnetic neutron scattering seen in powder measurements has previously been fitted by 2D Warren-type correlations. Using neutron spectroscopy, we show that paramagnetic fluctuations persist up to $…
In the geometrically frustrated materials with the low-dimensional and small spin moment, the quantum fluctuation could interfere with the complicated interplay of the spin, electron, lattice and orbital interactions, and host exotic ground states such as nematic spin-state and chiral liquid phase. While the quantum phases of the one-dimensional chain and S - 1/2 two-dimensional triangular-lattice antiferromagnet (TLAF) had been more thoroughly investigated by both theorists and experimentalists, the work on S = 1 TLAF has been limited. We induced the lattice distortion into the TLAFs, A3NiNb2…
We study the effects of bond randomness in the spin-$1/2$ $J_1-J_2$ triangular Heisenberg model using exact diagonalization and density matrix renormalization group. With increasing bond randomness, we identify a randomness induced spin-liquid-like phase without any magnetic order, dimer order, spin glass order, or valence-bond glass order. The finite-size scaling of gaps suggests the gapless nature of both spin triplet and singlet excitations, which is further supported by the broad continuum of dynamical spin structure factor. By studying the bipartite entanglement spectrum of the system on …
Successive magnetic phase transitions at $T_1$=17.5 K and $T_2$=18.5 K in Gd$_3$Ru$_4$Al$_{12}$, with a distorted kagome lattice of Gd ions, is studied using resonant X-ray diffraction with polarization analysis. It has been suggested that in this compound the $S=7/2$ spins on the nearest-neighbor Gd-triangle form a ferromagnetic trimer and the Gd lattice can be effectively considered as an antiferromagnetic triangular lattice of $S=21/2$ spin trimers [S. Nakamura et al., Phys. Rev. B 98, 054410 (2018)]. We show that the magnetic order in this system is described by an incommensurate wave vect…
