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在Cu中实现的近基塔耶夫量子自旋液体的自旋激发$_2$ IrO $_3$

Spin excitations of a proximate Kitaev quantum spin liquid realized in Cu$_2$IrO$_3$

Sean K. Takahashi, Jiaming Wang, Alexandre Arsenault, Mykola Abramchuk, Fazel Tafti, Philip M. Singer, Takashi Imai

摘要:

在键依赖伊辛相互作用之间的阻挫效应的影响下,排列在蜂窝晶格的角上的磁矩被预测形成一种新的物质状态,Kitaev量子自旋液体。一些层状蜂窝状铱酸盐和相关材料,如Na $_{2}$ IrO $_{3}$和$α$ $_{3}$,接近于Kitaev量子自旋液体,但与不期望的反铁磁长程有序相关联的玻色子自旋波激发掩盖了Kitaev哈密顿量的固有性质。在这里,我们使用$^{63}$ Cu核四极共振,揭示了低能量自旋激发在近理想的蜂窝晶格中的有效自旋$S = 1/2$在铜$_{2}$中的Ir $^{4+}$位置$_{3}$。我们证明,不像Na $_{2}$ IrO $_{3}$,Ir自旋涨落没有表现出临界慢向磁长程有序在零外磁场的证据。此外,低能量的自旋激发光谱是占主导地位的模式,具有大的激发间隙可比的伊辛相互作用,预期的签名为Kitaev量子自旋液体的马约拉纳费米子。

英文摘要:

Magnetic moments arranged at the corners of a honeycomb lattice are predicted to form a novel state of matter, Kitaev quantum spin liquid, under the influence of frustration effects between bond-dependent Ising interactions. Some layered honeycomb iridates and related materials, such as Na$_{2}$IrO$_{3}$ and $α$-RuCl$_{3}$, are proximate to Kitaev quantum spin liquid, but bosonic spin-wave excitations associated with undesirable antiferromagnetic long-range order mask the inherent properties of Kitaev Hamiltonian. Here, we use $^{63}$Cu nuclear quadrupole resonance to uncover the low energy spin excitations in the nearly ideal honeycomb lattice of effective spin $S = 1/2$ at the Ir$^{4+}$ sites in Cu$_{2}$IrO$_{3}$. We demonstrate that, unlike Na$_{2}$IrO$_{3}$, Ir spin fluctuations exhibit no evidence for critical slowing down toward magnetic long range order in zero external magnetic field. Moreover, the low energy spin excitation spectrum is dominated by a mode that has a large excitation gap comparable to the Ising interactions, a signature expected for Majorana fermions of Kitaev quantum spin liquid.

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