Halogen control of magnetic competition in Kitaev candidate Ru$X_3$ ($X=$ Cl, Br)

Ryuta Iwazaki, Shinnosuke Koyama, Takashi Koretsune +2

The spin-orbital Mott insulators Ru$X_3$ ($X=$ Cl, Br) have attracted considerable attention as promising candidate materials for realizing a Kitaev spin liquid. In this study, we…