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cond-mat.str-el2026

Magnetic Phase Diagrams and Spin Hamiltonian of Monoclinic -RuCl from Angle-Dependent Torque Studies

Daniel Antoniou, Danrui Ni, John S. Pearce +3

The layered honeycomb -RuCl has been much explored as a candidate to display unconventional cooperative magnetism between spin-orbit entangled Ru ma…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Angular Modulations in Magnetic Torque Induced by Phase Transitions in the Triangular Supersolid -AgNiO

John S. Pearce, Zeyu Ma, Alimamy Bangura +4

Easy-axis frustrated triangular lattice antiferromagnets provide an important playground for stabilising a wide range of exotic magnetic phases. The delafossite -AgNiO offe…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Field-tuned incommensurate fan phase in an Ising-like triangular antiferromagnet

D. Flavián, R. Okuma, P. Manuel +3

Using single-crystal neutron diffraction we report the observation of a field-tuned incommensurate phase in a field range just below magnetization saturation in the Ising-like tria…

cond-mat.str-el2025★ 7 cited

From continuum excitations to sharp magnons via transverse magnetic field in the spin-1/2 Ising-like triangular lattice antiferromagnet Na2BaCo(PO4)2

Leonie Woodland, Ryutaro Okuma, J. Ross Stewart +2

We report high-resolution inelastic neutron scattering measurements of the excitation spectrum in large single crystals of the spin-1/2 triangular lattice Ising-like antiferromagne…

cond-mat.str-el2024

Origin of the insulating state in the Kitaev candidate CuIrO

Ying Li, Roger D. Johnson, Yogesh Singh +2

Through a combination of crystal symmetry analysis and density functional theory calculations we unveil a possible microscopic origin of the unexpected insulating behavior reported…

cond-mat.str-el2024

Selective synthesis and crystal chemistry of candidate rare earth Kitaev materials: honeycomb and hyperhoneycomb NaPrO

Ryutaro Okuma, Kylie MacFarquharson, Radu Coldea

Rare earth oxides have attracted interest as a platform for studying frustrated magnetism arising from bond dependent anisotropic interactions. Ordered rock salt compounds NaPr…

cond-mat.str-el2024

Compass-model physics on the hyperhoneycomb lattice in the extreme spin-orbit regime

Ryutaro Okuma, Kylie MacFarquharson, Roger D. Johnson +3

The physics of spin-orbit entangled magnetic moments of and transition metal ions on a honeycomb lattice has been much explored in search for unconventional magnetic orde…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 4 cited

Anisotropy of the zigzag order in the Kitaev honeycomb magnet -RuBr

John S. Pearce, David A. S. Kaib, Zeyu Ma +5

Kitaev materials often order magnetically at low temperatures due to the presence of non-Kitaev interactions. Torque magnetometry is a very sensitive technique for probing the magn…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 6 cited

Anisotropic magnetic interactions in a candidate Kitaev spin liquid close to a metal-insulator transition

Zeyu Ma, Danrui Ni, David A. S. Kaib +6

In the Kitaev honeycomb model, spins coupled by strongly-frustrated anisotropic interactions do not order at low temperature but instead form a quantum spin liquid with spin fracti…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 17 cited

Tuning the confinement potential between spinons in the Ising chain CoNb2O6 using longitudinal fields and quantitative determination of the microscopic Hamiltonian

Leonie Woodland, David Macdougal, Ivelisse M. Cabrera +4

The Ising chain realizes the fundamental paradigm of spin fractionalization, where locally flipping a spin creates two domain walls (spinons) that can separate apart at no energy c…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 12 cited

Excitations of quantum Ising chain CoNb2O6 in low transverse field: quantitative description of bound states stabilized by off-diagonal exchange and applied field

Leonie Woodland, Izabella Lovas, M. Telling +3

We present experimental and theoretical evidence of novel bound state formation in the low transverse field ordered phase of the quasi-one-dimensional Ising-like material CoNbO…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 12 cited

High-energy spin waves in the spin-1 square-lattice antiferromagnet LaNiO

A. N. Petsch, N. S. Headings, D. Prabhakaran +5

Inelastic neutron scattering is used to study the magnetic excitations of the square-lattice antiferromagnet LaNiO. We find that the spin waves cannot be described by…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 3 cited

Studies on Novel Yb-based Candidate Triangular Quantum Antiferromagnets: Ba3YbB3O9 and Ba3YbB9O18

Hwanbeom Cho, Stephen J. Blundell, Toni Shiroka +3

Yb-based triangular magnets have recently attracted attention as promising candidates to explore frustrated quantum magnetism. However, some candidates have turned out to have sign…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 77 cited

Quantifying and controlling entanglement in the quantum magnet CsCoCl

Pontus Laurell, Allen Scheie, Chiron J. Mukherjee +7

The lack of methods to experimentally detect and quantify entanglement in quantum matter impedes our ability to identify materials hosting highly entangled phases, such as quantum…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 80 cited

Order-by-Disorder from Bond-Dependent Exchange and Intensity Signature of Nodal Quasiparticles in a Honeycomb Cobaltate

M. Elliot, P. A. McClarty, D. Prabhakaran +4

Recent theoretical proposals have argued that cobaltates with edge-sharing octahedral coordination can have significant bond-dependent exchange couplings thus offering a platform i…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 53 cited

Avoided quasiparticle decay and enhanced excitation continuum in the spin-1/2 near-Heisenberg triangular antiferromagnet Ba3CoSb2O9

David Macdougal, Stephanie Williams, Dharmalingam Prabhakaran +3

We explore the magnetic excitations of the spin-1/2 triangular antiferromagnet Ba3CoSb2O9 in its 120 degree ordered phase using single-crystal high-resolution inelastic neutron sca…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 46 cited

Glide symmetry breaking and Ising criticality in the quasi-1D magnet CoNbO

Michele Fava, Radu Coldea, S. A. Parameswaran

We construct a microscopic spin-exchange Hamiltonian for the quasi-1D Ising magnet CoNbO that captures detailed and hitherto-unexplained aspects of its dynamic spin structu…

cond-mat.str-el2019★ 28 cited

High-resolution resonant inelastic x-ray scattering study of the electron-phonon coupling in honeycomb -LiIrO

J. G. Vale, C. D. Dashwood, E. Paris +11

The excitations in honeycomb -LiIrO have been investigated with high-resolution resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) at the O K edge. The low-energy response is do…

cond-mat.str-el2019★ 6 cited

Chemical tuning between triangular and honeycomb structures in a 5 spin-orbit Mott insulator

R. D. Johnson, I. Broeders, K. Mehlawat +4

We report structural studies of the spin-orbit Mott insulator family KIrO, with triangular layers of edge-sharing IrO octahedra bonded by potassium ions. The potass…

cond-mat.str-el2018★ 35 cited

Spin dynamics and field-induced magnetic phase transition in the honeycomb Kitaev magnet -LiIrO

Sungkyun Choi, S. Manni, J. Singleton +7

The layered honeycomb iridate -LiIrO displays an incommensurate magnetic structure with counterrotating moments on nearest-neighbor sites, proposed to be stabilized by s…

cond-mat.str-el2018★ 17 cited

Spin dynamics of coupled spin ladders near quantum criticality in Ba2CuTeO6

David Macdougal, Alexandra S. Gibbs, Tao Ying +6

We report inelastic neutron scattering measurements of the magnetic excitations in Ba2CuTeO6, proposed by ab initio calculations to magnetically realize weakly coupled antiferromag…

cond-mat.str-el2017★ 7 cited

Neutron Scattering Signatures of Magnon Weyl Points

S. Shivam, R. Coldea, R. Moessner +1

We study the inelastic neutron scattering cross section in the vicinity of touching points in magnon bands. Among the possible touching points are magnon Weyl points in three dimen…

cond-mat.str-el2017★ 156 cited

Probing -RuCl Beyond Magnetic Order: Effects of Temperature and Magnetic Field

Stephen M. Winter, Kira Riedl, David Kaib +2

Recent studies have brought -RuCl to the forefront of experimental searches for materials realizing Kitaev spin-liquid physics. This material exhibits strongly anisotropic e…

cond-mat.str-el2017★ 100 cited

Quasiparticle Breakdown and Spin Hamiltonian of the Frustrated Quantum Pyrochlore YbTiO in Magnetic Field

J. D. Thompson, P. A. McClarty, D. Prabhakaran +3

The frustrated pyrochlore magnet YbTiO has the remarkable property that it orders magnetically, but has no propagating magnons over wide regions of the Brillouin zone.…