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Field-induced multipolar character in the dipolar ground state of the honeycomb rare-earth chalcohalide NdOF
Tiantian Liu, Yanzhen Cai, Mingtai Xie +6
Field-tunable reconstruction of crystalline electric field (CEF) doublets offers a promising avenue for inducing multipolar character, while its observation in real materials has b…
Emergent Dispersive Multipolar Excitations in NaErSe
Zheng Zhang, Mingfang Shu, Mingtai Xie +6
In most condensed-matter systems, local and collective excitations remain decoupled due to their distinct energy scales. Here, we identify coupled local-collective excitations in t…
Anomalous enhancement of magnetism by nonmagnetic doping in the honeycomb-lattice antiferromagnet ErOCl
Yanzhen Cai, Mingtai Xie, Jing Kang +8
Tuning magnetic anisotropy through chemical doping is a powerful strategy for designing functional materials with enhanced magnetic properties. Here, we report an enhanced Er^3+ ma…
Dominant Kitaev interaction and field-induced quantum phase transitions in triangular-lattice KCeSe2
Mingtai Xie, Zheng Zhang, Weizhen Zhuo +13
Realizing Kitaev interactions on triangular lattices offers a compelling platform for exploring quantum-spin-liquid physics beyond the conventional honeycomb lattice framework. Her…
Gapless spinon excitations emerging from a multipolar transverse field in the triangular-lattice Ising antiferromagnet NaTmSe2
Zheng Zhang, Jinlong Jiao, Weizhen Zhuo +9
The triangular-lattice quantum Ising antiferromagnet is a promising platform for realizing Anderson's quantum spin liquid, though finding suitable materials to realize it remains a…
Crystalline electric field excitations and their nonlinear splitting under magnetic fields in YbOCl
Yanzhen Cai, Wei Ren, Xijing Dai +8
Recently reported van der Waals layered honeycomb rare-earth chalcohalides REChX (RE = rare earth, Ch = chalcogen, and X = halogen) are considered to be promising Kitaev spin liqui…
Rare-Earth Chalcogenides: An Inspiring Playground For Exploring Frustrated Magnetism
Mingtai Xie, Wenzhen Zhuo, Yanzhen Cai +2
The rare-earth chalcogenide family ( alkali metal or monovalent ions, rare earth, chalcogen) has emerged as a paradigmatic platform for studying frus…
Ground State Magnetic Structure and Magnetic Field Effects in the Layered Honeycomb Antiferromagnet YbOCl
Zheng Zhang, Yanzhen Cai, Jinlong Jiao +8
YbOCl is a representative member of the van der Waals layered honeycomb rare-earth chalcohalide REChX (RE = rare earth, Ch = O, S, Se, and Te, and X = F, Cl, Br, and I) family repo…
Finite Temperature Magnetism in the Triangular Lattice Antiferromagnet KErTe2
Weiwei Liu, Zheng Zhang, Dayu Yan +6
After the discovery of the ARECh2 (A=alkali or monovalent ions, RE=rare-earth, Ch= chalcogen) triangular lattice quantum spin liquid (QSL) family, a series of its oxide, sulfide, a…
Magnetism of : From finite temperatures to ground state
Weizhen Zhuo, Zheng Zhang, Mingtai Xie +4
Rare-earth chalcogenide compounds (A = alkali or monovalent metal, RE = rare earth, Ch = O, S, Se, Te) are a large family of quantum spin liquid (QSL) candidate…
Anisotropic exchange coupling and ground state phase diagram of Kitaev compound YbOCl
Zheng Zhang, Yanzhen Cai, Jing Kang +6
Rare-earth chalcohalide REChX (RE = rare earth; Ch = O, S, Se, Te; X = F, Cl, Br, I) is a newly reported family of Kitaev spin liquid candidates. The family offers a platform where…
Low-energy Spin Dynamics of Quantum Spin Liquid Candidate
Zheng Zhang, Jianshu Li, Mingtai Xie +10
The family of rare earth chalcogenides (A = alkali or monovalent ions, RE = rare earth, and Ch = O, S, Se, and Te) appears as an inspiring playground for studying quant…
Effects of the Crystalline Electric Field in the Quantum Spin Liquid Candidate
Weiwei Liu, Zheng Zhang, Dayu Yan +6
In this paper, we performed thermodynamic and electron spin resonance (ESR) measurements to study low-energy magnetic excitations, which were significantly affected by crystalline…
Effective Model for Rare-earth Kitaev Materials and its Classical Monte Carlo Simulation
Mengjie Sun, Huihang Lin, Zheng Zhang +9
Recently, the family of rare-earth chalcohalides were proposed as candidate compounds to realize the Kitaev spin liquid (KSL). In the present work, we firstly propose an effective…
Rare-earth chalcohalides: A family of van der Waals layered Kitaev spin liquid candidates
Jianting Ji, Mengjie Sun, Yanzhen Cai +6
Kitaev spin liquid (KSL) system has attracted tremendous attention in past years because of its fundamental significance in condensed matter physics and promising applications in f…
Effective Magnetic Hamiltonian at Finite Temperatures for Rare Earth Chalcogenides
Zheng Zhang, Jianshu Li, Weiwei Liu +8
Alkali metal rare-earth chalcogenide (A=alkali or monovalent metal, RE=rare earth, Ch=O, S, Se, Te), is a large family of quantum spin liquid (QSL) candidates we discovere…
Pressure induced metallization and possible unconventional superconductivity in spin liquid
Zheng Zhang, Yunyu Yin, Xiaoli Ma +8
Beyond the conventional electron pairing mediated by phonons, high-temperature superconductivity in cuprates is believed to stem from quantum spin liquid (QSL). The unconventional…
Crystalline Electric-Field Excitations in Quantum Spin Liquids Candidate
Zheng Zhang, Xiaoli Ma, Jianshu Li +10
Very recently we revealed a large family of triangular lattice quantum spin liquid candidates named rare-earth chalcogenides, which features a high-symmetry structure without struc…
Magnetic field effects on the quantum spin liquid behaviors of NaYbS
Jiangtao Wu, Jianshu Li, Zheng Zhang +23
Spin-orbit coupling is an important ingredient to regulate the many-body physics, especially for many spin liquid candidate materials such as rare-earth magnets and Kitaev material…