Emerging quantum spin liquid state in a molecular rotor system

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Large quantum fluctuations might drive magnetic systems to disordered phases even at low temperatures. Recently, a few two-dimensional spin-1/2 systems have been realized in which the isotropic triangular lattice results in the emergence of the quantum spin liquid state.We investigate the spin state of a layered organic material, (EDT-TTF-CONH2)2+[BABCO]- by multi-frequency electron spin resonance measurements. The (EDT-TTF-CONH2)2+ sites form a closely isotropic triangular lattice, and the Brownian motion of the molecular rotor BABCO- layers provoke large dipole fluctuations. We found no indication of magnetic ordering or spin freezing down to 1.5 K. Our results suggest that, due to the intrinsic disorder, a unique QSL state is formed. To verify the absence of the ordering, we intend toperform high-precision muon spin rotation experiments down to 30 mK in low magnetic fields.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.79111141
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/79111141
Provenance
Creator Dr Fiona Coomer; Dr Balint Nafradi; Dr Péter Szirmai
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-05-16T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-05-19T08:00:00Z