标题：Two-dimensional spin liquid behaviour in the triangular-honeycomb antiferromagnet TbInO3
作者：Clark, Lucy; Sala, Gabriele; Maharaj, Dalini D.; Stone, Matthew B.; Knight, Kevin S.; Telling, Mark T. F.; Wang, Xueyun; Xu, Xianghan; 更多Clark, Lucy; Sala, Gabriele; Maharaj, Dalini D.; Stone, Matthew B.; Knight, Kevin S.; Telling, Mark T. F.; Wang, Xueyun; Xu, Xianghan; Kim, Jaewook; Li, Yanbin; Cheong, Sang-Wook; Gaulin, Bruce D. 收起
作者机构：[Clark, Lucy] Univ Liverpool, Dept Chem, Mat Innovat Factory, Liverpool, Merseyside, England.; [Clark, Lucy] Univ Liverpool, Dept Phys, Mat Innovat 更多[Clark, Lucy] Univ Liverpool, Dept Chem, Mat Innovat Factory, Liverpool, Merseyside, England.; [Clark, Lucy] Univ Liverpool, Dept Phys, Mat Innovat Factory, Liverpool, Merseyside, England.; [Clark, Lucy; Sala, Gabriele; Maharaj, Dalini D.; Gaulin, Bruce D.] McMaster Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Hamilton, ON, Canada.; [Sala, Gabriele; Stone, Matthew B.] Oak Ridge Natl Lab, Neutron Scattering Div, Oak Ridge, TN USA.; [Knight, Kevin S.] UCL, Dept Earth Sci, London, England.; [Knight, Kevin S.] Nat Hist Museum, Dept Earth Sci, London, England.; [Knight, Kevin S.; Telling, Mark T. F.] Rutherford Appleton Lab, ISIS Facil, Didcot, Oxon, England.; [Wang, Xueyun; Xu, Xianghan; Kim, Jaewook; Li, Yanbin; Cheong, Sang-Wook] Rutgers State Univ, Rutgers Ctr Emergent Mat, Piscataway, NJ USA.; [Wang, Xueyun; Xu, Xianghan; Kim, Jaewook; Li, Yanbin; Cheong, Sang-Wook] Rutgers State Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Piscataway, NJ USA.; [Li, Yanbin] Shandong Univ, State Key Lab Crystal Mat, Jinan, Shandong, Peoples R China.; [Gaulin, Bruce D.] Brockhouse Inst Mat Res, Hamilton, ON, Canada.; [Gaulin, Bruce D.] Canadian Inst Adv Res, Toronto, ON, Canada. 收起
通讯作者地址：[Clark, L]Univ Liverpool, Dept Chem, Mat Innovat Factory, Liverpool, Merseyside, England;[Clark, L]Univ Liverpool, Dept Phys, Mat Innovat Factory, Liv 更多[Clark, L]Univ Liverpool, Dept Chem, Mat Innovat Factory, Liverpool, Merseyside, England;[Clark, L]Univ Liverpool, Dept Phys, Mat Innovat Factory, Liverpool, Merseyside, England;[Clark, L; Gaulin, BD]McMaster Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Hamilton, ON, Canada;[Gaulin, BD]Brockhouse Inst Mat Res, Hamilton, ON, Canada;[Gaulin, BD]Canadian Inst Adv Res, Toronto, ON, Canada. 收起
来源：NATURE PHYSICS
出版年：2019
卷：15
期：3
页码：262-268
DOI：10.1038/s41567-018-0407-2
摘要：Spin liquid ground states are predicted to arise within several distinct scenarios in condensed matter physics. The observation of these disordered magnetic states is particularly pervasive among a class of materials known as frustrated magnets, in which the competition between various magnetic exchange interactions prevents the system from adopting long-range magnetic order at low temperatures. Spin liquids continue to be of great interest due to their exotic nature and the possibility that they may support fractionalized excitations, such as Majorana fermions. Systems that allow for such phenomena are not only fascinating from a fundamental perspective but may also be practically significant in future technologies based on quantum computation. Here we show that the underlying antiferromagnetic sublattice in TbInO3 can undergo a crystal field-induced distortion of its buckled triangular arrangement to one based on a honeycomb. The absence of a conventional magnetic ordering transition at the lowest measurable temperatures indicates that another critical mechanism must govern in the ground-state selection of TbInO3. We suggest that anisotropic exchange interactions-mediated through strong spin-orbit coupling on the emergent honeycomb lattice of TbInO3-give rise to a highly frustrated spin liquid.
