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Magnetic phase diagram in three-dimensional triangular-lattice antiferromagnet SrCoTaO with small easy-axis anisotropy
Iori Nishizawa, Nobuyuki Kurita, Hidekazu Tanaka +1
We report the results of low-temperature magnetization and specific heat measurements of SrCoTaO powder, in which Co ions with effective spin-1/2 form a uniform…
Field-orientation dependence of quantum phase transitions in the S=1/2 triangular-lattice antiferromagnet BaCoSbO
Kazuki Okada, Hidekazu Tanaka, Nobuyuki Kurita +3
BaCoSbO approximates the two-dimensional spin-1/2 triangular-lattice Heisenberg antiferromagnet. This compound displays magnetic-field-induced quantum phase transitions…
Contrasting Magnetic Structures in SrLaCuSbO and SrLaCuNbO: Spin-1/2 Quasi-Square-Lattice Heisenberg Antiferromagnets
Masari Watanabe, Nobuyuki Kurita, Hidekazu Tanaka +4
We report the magnetic properties of the double perovskites SrLaCuSbO (SLCSO) and SrLaCuNbO (SLCNO). The temperature dependence of the magnetic susceptibilities of both com…
Possible Intermediate Quantum Spin Liquid Phase in -RuCl under High Magnetic Fields up to 100 T
Xu-Guang Zhou, Han Li, Yasuhiro H. Matsuda +6
Pursuing the exotic quantum spin liquid (QSL) state in the Kitaev material -RuCl has intrigued great research interest recently. A fascinating question is on the possible ex…
Structures of magnetic excitations in the spin-1/2 kagome-lattice antiferromagnets CsCuSnF and RbCuSnF
Mutsuki Saito, Ryunosuke Takagishi, Nobuyuki Kurita +6
We show the structures of magnetic excitations in spin-1/2 kagome-lattice antiferromagnets CsCuSnF and RbCuSnF investigated by inelastic neutron scatt…
Magnons and Spinons in : A Composite System of Isolated Spin- Triangular Heisenberg-like and Frustrated Honeycomb Ising-like Antiferromagnets
Yuki Kojima, Nobuyuki Kurita, Hidekazu Tanaka +1
We report the neutron scattering results on magnetic orderings and excitations in composed of two almost isolated subsystems A and B, which are desc…
Continuous control of classical-quantum crossover by external high pressure in the coupled chain compound CsCuCl
Daisuke Yamamoto, Takahiro Sakurai, Ryosuke Okuto +4
In solid materials, the parameters relevant to quantum effects, such as the spin quantum number, are basically determined and fixed at the chemical synthesis, which makes it challe…
First ESR Detection of Higgs Amplitude Mode and Analysis with Extended Spin-Wave Theory in Dimer System KCuCl
Masashige Matsumoto, Takahiro Sakurai, Yuki Hirao +3
KCuCl is known to show a quantum phase transition from the disordered to antiferromagnetically ordered phases by applying pressure. There is a longitudinal excitation mode (Hig…
Coupled spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic chain CsLiRuCl with partially disordered crystal lattice
Kazumitsu Watanabe, Nobuyuki Kurita, Hidekazu Tanaka +4
We determined the crystal structure of CsLiRuCl, which was synthesized first in this work, and investigated its magnetic properties. CsLiRuCl has a hexagonal struct…
Novel Excitations near Quantum Criticality in Geometrically Frustrated Antiferromagnet CsFeCl
Shohei Hayashida, Masashige Matsumoto, Masato Hagihala +7
Investigation of materials that exhibit quantum phase transition provides valuable insights into fundamental problems in physics. We present neutron scattering under pressure in a…
Successive phase transitions and quantum magnetization plateau in the spin-1 triangular-lattice antiferromagnet BaLaNiTeO
Mutsuki Saito, Masari Watanabe, Nobuyuki Kurita +5
The crystal structure and magnetic properties of the spin-1 triangular-lattice antiferromagnet BaLaNiTeO are reported. Its crystal structure is trigonal $R\bar{3…
Triplon band splitting and topologically protected edge states in the dimerized antiferromagnet
Kazuhiro Nawa, Kimihiko Tanaka, Nobuyuki Kurita +6
The search for topological insulators has been actively promoted in the field of condensed matter physics for further development in energy-efficient information transmission and p…
Valence-Bond-Glass State with Singlet Gap in the Spin-1/2 Square-Lattice Random - Heisenberg Antiferromagnet SrCuTeWO
Masari Watanabe, Nobuyuki Kurita, Hidekazu Tanaka +3
The double-perovskite compounds SrCuTeO and SrCuWO are magnetically described as quasi-two-dimensional spin-1/2 square-lattice Heisenberg antiferromagne…
Quantum magnetic properties of the spin-1/2 triangular-lattice antiferromagnet BaLaCoTeO
Yuki Kojima, Masari Watanabe, Nobuyuki Kurita +4
We report the crystal structure of BaLaCoTeO determined by Rietveld analysis using X-ray powder diffraction data. It was found from magnetic measurements that Ba…
Localized magnetic excitations in the fully frustrated dimerized magnet BaCoSiOCl
Nobuyuki Kurita, Daisuke Yamamoto, Takuya Kanesaka +4
Magnetic excitations of the effective spin =1/2 dimerized magnet BaCoSiOCl have been probed directly via inelastic neutron scattering experiments at temperatures…
Majorana quantization and half-integer thermal quantum Hall effect in a Kitaev spin liquid
Y. Kasahara, T. Ohnishi, Y. Mizukami +9
The quantum Hall effect (QHE) in two-dimensional (2D) electron gases, which is one of the most striking phenomena in condensed matter physics, involves the topologically protected…
Local spin structure of the -RuCl honeycomb-lattice magnet observed via muon spin rotation/relaxation
Ichihiro Yamauchi, Masatoshi Hiraishi, Hirotaka Okabe +5
We report a muon spin rotation/relaxation (SR) study of single-crystalline samples of the -RuCl honeycomb magnet, which is presumed to be a model compound for the Kitaev-…
Unusual thermal Hall effect in a Kitaev spin liquid candidate -RuCl
Y. Kasahara, K. Sugii, T. Ohnishi +8
The Kitaev quantum spin liquid displays the fractionalization of quantum spins into Majorana fermions. The emergent Majorana edge current is predicted to manifest itself in the for…
Experimental Verification of the Universality of Magnetic-Field-Induced Bose-Einstein Condensation of Magnons
Kazuki Shirasawa, Nobuyuki Kurita, Hidekazu Tanaka
CsFeBr is an hexagonal antiferromagnet that has a singlet ground state owing to its large easy-plane single-ion anisotropy. The critical behavior of the magnetic-fi…
Quasi-two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensation of lattice bosons in spin-1/2 XXZ ferromagnet KCuF
Satoshi Hirata, Nobuyuki Kurita, Motoki Yamada +1
KCuF is magnetically described as a spin-1/2, quasi-two-dimensional (2D), square-lattice XXZ ferromagnet with weak easy-plane anisotropy. The magnetic ordering for an appli…
Magnetic thermal conductivity far above the Néel temperatures in the Kitaev-magnet candidate -RuCl
Daichi Hirobe, Masahiro Sato, Yuki Shiomi +2
We have investigated the longitudinal thermal conductivity of -RuCl, the magnetic state of which is considered to be proximate to a Kitaev honeycomb model, along with the…
Quasi-two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensation of spin triplets in dimerized quantum magnet BaCuSiOCl
Makiko Okada, Hidekazu Tanaka, Nobuyuki Kurita +9
We synthesized single crystals of composition BaCuSiOCl and investigated its quantum magnetic properties. The crystal structure is closely related to that of the qu…
Magnetic-field- and pressure-induced quantum phase transition in CsFeCl proved via magnetization measurement
Nobuyuki Kurita, Hidekazu Tanaka
We have performed magnetization measurements of the gapped quantum magnet CsFeCl at temperatures () down to 0.5\,K at ambient pressure and down to 1.8\,K at hydrostatic pres…
Magnetic Structure of the Quasi-Two-Dimensional Square-Lattice Heisenberg Antiferromagnet SrCuTeO
Tomoyuki Koga, Nobuyuki Kurita, Maxim Avdeev +3
The magnetic structure of the double perovskite compound SrCuTeO was determined from neutron powder diffraction data. This material is magnetically described as an $S\,{=}\…