Strong effect of hydrogen order on magnetic Kitaev interactions in H${}_3$LiIr${}_2$O${}_6$

Ravi Yadav, Rajyavardhan Ray, Mohamed S. Eldeeb +3

Very recently a quantum liquid was reported to form in H${}_3$LiIr${}_2$O${}_6$, an iridate proposed to be a close realization of the Kitaev honeycomb model. To test this assertion we pe…