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LiYbO$_2$中螺旋自旋液体的实验证据

Experimental Evidence for the Spiral Spin Liquid in LiYbO$_2$

J. N. Graham, N. Qureshi, C. Ritter, P. Manuel, A. R. Wildes, L. Clark

AI总结:

本研究通过多晶样品的高分辨与漫散射中子磁散射实验,首次证实LiYbO$_2$是拉长金刚石晶格$J_1$-$J_2$海森堡模型预言的螺旋自旋液体的实验实现,为该新型磁基态研究提供了新候选材料。

摘要:

螺旋自旋液体是一类奇异的关联顺磁体,具有由涨落自旋螺旋的简并流形构成的神秘磁基态。螺旋自旋液体的实验实现十分稀少,主要原因是候选材料中普遍存在结构畸变,这类畸变可能触发“无序致有序”(order-by-disorder)转变,形成更常规的有序磁基态。因此,扩大可能承载螺旋自旋液体的候选材料范围,对于实现这种新型磁基态、理解其对实际材料中存在的微扰的鲁棒性至关重要。本文中,我们证明LiYbO$_2$是首个实验实现的螺旋自旋液体材料,该螺旋自旋液体被预言会在拉长金刚石晶格上的$J_1$-$J_2$海森堡(Heisenberg)模型中出现。通过对多晶样品开展高分辨中子磁散射与漫散射中子磁散射的互补结合研究,我们证明LiYbO$_2$满足螺旋自旋液体实验实现的条件,并重构了单晶中子磁漫散射图谱,图谱显示出连续的螺旋自旋轮廓——这是该奇异磁相的标志性实验特征。

英文摘要:

Spiral spin liquids are an exotic class of correlated paramagnets with an enigmatic magnetic ground state composed of a degenerate manifold of fluctuating spin spirals. Experimental realisations of the spiral spin liquid are scarce, mainly due to the prominence of structural distortions in candidate materials that can trigger order-by-disorder transitions to more conventionally ordered magnetic ground states. Expanding the pool of candidate materials that may host a spiral spin liquid is therefore crucial to realising this novel magnetic ground state and understanding its robustness against perturbations that arise in real materials. Here, we show that the material LiYbO$_2$ is the first experimental realisation of a spiral spin liquid predicted to emerge from the $J_1$-$J_2$ Heisenberg model on an elongated diamond lattice. Through a complementary combination of high-resolution and diffuse neutron magnetic scattering studies on a polycrystalline sample, we demonstrate that LiYbO$_2$ fulfils the requirements for the experimental realisation of the spiral spin liquid and reconstruct single-crystal diffuse neutron magnetic scattering maps that reveal continuous spiral spin contours -- a characteristic experimental hallmark of this exotic magnetic phase.

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