Pressure-induced dimerization and collapse of antiferromagnetism in the Kitaev material $\alpha$-Li${}_2$IrO${}_3$

Bin Shen, Franziska Breitner, Danil Prishchenko +5

We present magnetization measurements carried out on polycrystalline and single-crystalline samples of $\alpha$-Li${}_2$IrO${}_3$ under hydrostatic pressures up to 2 GPa and establish the t…