Mechanical disorder-induced quantum spin liquid in a two-dimensional triangular lattice

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The quantum spin liquid (QSL) state is one of the possible outcomes of quantum fluctuations advancing magnetic systems into a disordered phase. After more than 30 years of quest for the QSL state, a few examples have been realized. In these systems, the role of quenched disorder turns out to be vital for the survival of an unordered state. We propose muon spin rotation experiments in a new QSL candidate. In this layered organic system, the magnetic layer forms two-dimensional triangular lattice with spin-1/2. The triangular layers are separated by molecular rotors. Their Brownian rotation is prohibited at high temperatures. Below 130 K, however, the motion of the rotor is re-established resulting in electric dipole fluctuations, and destroying the formation of the antiferromagnetically ordered state. Our electron spin resonance study was unable to identify magnetic ordering.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.84803270
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/84803270
Provenance
Creator Dr Stephen Cottrell; Dr Péter Szirmai; Dr Balint Nafradi
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-03-20T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-03-22T00:00:00Z