Evidence for a magnetic field-induced unconventional nematic state in the frustrated and anisotropic spin-chain cuprate LiCuSbO${}_4$

H. -J. Grafe, S. Nishimoto, M. Iakovleva +12

Modern theories of quantum magnetism predict exotic multipolar states in weakly interacting strongly frustrated spin-1/2 Heisenberg chains with ferromagnetic nearest neighbor (NN)…