Kitaev's exact solution approximated

Abstract

For 25 years condensed matter physicists have searched for a material that realizes a macroscopic quantum state of matter, the quantum spin liquid. Recent experiments show that the necessary interaction may be found in a family of hexagonal ruthenium based materials.

Appeared as Nature Materials 15, 701-702 (2016); Commentary on A. Banerjee et al. Nature Materials 15, 733-740 (2016)

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