Nonequilibrium quasistationary spin disordered state in the Kitaev-Heisenberg magnet $\alpha$-RuCl${}_3$

R. B. Versteeg, A. Chiocchetta, F. Sekiguchi +9

Excitation by light pulses enables the manipulation of phases of quantum condensed matter. Here, we photoexcite high-energy holon-doublon pairs as a way to alter the magnetic free…