Fractionalized spin excitation and crystal electric field study in the rare-earth triangular quantum spin liquid candidate: YbMgGaO4

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A new rare-earth triangular quantum spin liquid (QSL) candidate, YbMgGaO4, has an odd number of electrons per unit cell and spin-orbit entangled effective spin-1/2 (Yb3+). Recently, we have, for the first time, successfully synthesized powder samples and grown high-quality single crystals. Our early studies on magnetic property, heat capacity, and electron spin resonance characterizations have been reported. The measurements consistently and clearly suggested that YbMgGaO4 is a potential QSL with a spinon Fermi surface. Further sensitive and unique measurements, such as μSR and inelastic neutron scattering, are highly required to confirm the QSL ground state, explore and characterize the novel low-energy spin excitations at extremely low temperatures.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.79107064
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/79107064
Provenance
Creator Dr Rob Bewley; Dr Devashi Adroja; Professor Qingming Zhang; Dr Yuesheng Li
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
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 2016-05-09T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-05-12T08:00:00Z