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Local distortion driven magnetic phase switching in pyrochlore
Yuanpeng Zhang, Zhiling Dun, Yunqi Cai +7
While it is commonly accepted that the disorder induced by magnetic ion doping in quantum magnets usually generates a rugged free-energy landscape resulting in slow or glassy spin…
Electronic and magnetic properties of intermetallic Kagome magnets VSn ( = Tb - Tm)
X. X. Zhang, Z. Y. Liu, Q. Cui +7
We present a systematic study of the structure, electronic, and magnetic properties of a new branch of intermetalllic compounds, VSn ( = Tb - Tm) by using X-ray diffr…
Magnetic order and spin liquid behavior in [Mo3+]^{11+} triangular magnets
Q. Chen, R. Sinclair, A. Akbari-Sharbaf +10
Molecular magnets based on [Mo] units with one unpaired electron per trimer have attracted recent interest due to the identification of quantum spin liquid candidacy in…
Anticollinear order and degeneracy lifting in square lattice antiferromagnet LaSrCrO4
Jing Zhou, Guy Quirion, Jeffrey A. Quilliam +10
We report the static and dynamic magnetic properties of LaSrCrO, a seemingly canonical spin-3/2 square-lattice antiferromagnet that exhibits frustration between magnetic layers…
Pressure-induced superconductivity up to 9 K in the quasi-one-dimensional KMn6Bi5
Z. Y. Liu, Q. X. Dong, P. T. Yang +8
The Mn-based superconductor is rare owing to the strong magnetic pair-breaking effect. Here we report on the discovery of pressure-induced superconductivity in KMn6Bi5, which becom…
Magneto-transport evidence for strong topological insulator phase in ZrTe5
Jingyue Wang, Yuxuan Jiang, Tianhao Zhao +8
The identification of a non-trivial band topology usually relies on directly probing the protected surface/edge states. But, it is difficult to achieve electronically in narrow-gap…
Survival of itinerant excitations and quantum spin state transitions in YbMgGaO with chemical disorder
X. Rao, G. Hussain, Q. Huang +17
A recent focus of quantum spin liquid (QSL) studies is how disorder/randomness in a QSL candidate affects its true magnetic ground state. The ultimate question is whether the QSL s…
Structural magnetic glassiness in spin ice DyTiO
Anjana M. Samarakoon, Andre Sokolowski, Bastian Klemke +14
The spin ice compound DyTiO is well-known to realise a three-dimensional Coulomb spin liquid with magnetically charged monopole excitations. Its fate at low temperature…
Instabilities of heavy magnons in an anisotropic magnet
Xiaojian Bai, Shang-Shun Zhang, Hao Zhang +5
The search for new elementary particles is one of the most basic pursuits in physics, spanning from subatomic physics to quantum materials. Magnons are the ubiquitous elementary qu…
Observation of 4- and 6-magnon bound-states in the spin-anisotropic frustrated antiferromagnet FeI
Anaëlle Legros, Shang-Shun Zhang, Xiaojian Bai +6
Spin-waves e.g. magnons are the conventional elementary excitations of ordered magnets. However, other possibilities exist. For instance, magnon bound-states can arise due to attra…
Neutron scattering investigation of proposed Kosterlitz-Thouless transitions in the triangular-lattice Ising antiferromagnet TmMgGaO4
Zhiling Dun, Marcus Daum, Raju Baral +10
The transverse-field Ising model on the triangular lattice is expected to host an intermediate finite-temperature Kosterlitz-Thouless (KT) phase through a mapping of the spins on e…
Magnetic Field Induced Phase Transition in Spinel GeNi2O4
T. Basu, T. Zou, Z. Dun +7
Cubic spinel GeNi2O4 exhibits intriguing magnetic properties with two successive antiferromagnetic phase transitions (TN1 12.1 and TN2 11.4 K) with the absence of any structural tr…
Hybridized quadrupolar excitations in the spin-anisotropic frustrated magnet FeI2
Xiaojian Bai, Shang-Shun Zhang, Zhiling Dun +8
Magnetic order is usually associated with well-defined magnon excitations. Exotic magnetic fluctuations with fractional, topological or multipolar character, have been proposed for…
Effective point-charge analysis of crystal electric fields -- application to rare-earth pyrochlores and tripod kagome magnets R3Mg2Sb3O14
Zhiling Dun, Xiaojian Bai, Matthew B. Stone +2
An indispensable step to understand collective magnetic phenomena in rare-earth compounds is the determination of spatially-anisotropic single-ion properties resulting from spin-or…
Unraveling the Topological Phase of ZrTe via Magneto-infrared Spectroscopy
Y. Jiang, J. Wang, T. Zhao +9
For materials near the phase boundary between weak and strong topological insulators (TIs), their band topology depends on the band alignment, with the inverted (normal) band corre…
Noncollinear magnetic structure and magnetoelectric coupling in buckled honeycomb CoNbO:A single crystal neutron diffraction study
Lei Ding, Minseong Lee, Tao Hong +8
Through analysis of single crystal neutron diffraction data, we present the magnetic structures of magnetoelectric Co4Nb2O9 under various magnetic fields. In zero-field, neutron di…
Quantum versus Classical Spin Fragmentation in Dipolar Kagome Ice Ho3Mg2Sb3O14
Zhiling Dun, Xiaojian Bai, Joseph A. M. Paddison +8
A promising route to realize entangled magnetic states combines geometrical frustration with quantum-tunneling effects. Spin-ice materials are canonical examples of frustration, an…
Modeling Spin Dynamics in the Singlet Ground State Garnet Ho3Ga5O12
Joseph A. M. Paddison, Paromita Mukherjee, Xiaojian Bai +6
Materials containing non-Kramers magnetic ions can show unusual quantum excitations because of the exact mapping of the two-singlet crystal-field ground state to a quantum model of…
Machine Learning Assisted Insight to Spin Ice DyTiO
Anjana M Samarakoon, Kipton Barros, Ying Wai Li +8
Complex behavior poses challenges in extracting models from experiment. An example is spin liquid formation in frustrated magnets like DyTiO. Understanding has been hin…
Landau quantization in coupled Weyl points: a case study of semimetal NbP
Y. Jiang, Z. L. Dun, S. Moon +4
Weyl semimetal (WSM) is a newly discovered quantum phase of matter that exhibits topologically protected states characterized by two separated Weyl points with linear dispersion in…
Quantum Spin Fragmentation in Kagome Ice Ho3Mg2Sb3O14
Zhiling Dun, Xiaojian Bai, Joseph A. M. Paddison +6
A promising route to realize entangled magnetic states combines geometrical frustration with quantum-tunneling effects. Spin-ice materials are canonical examples of frustration, an…
Evolution of the magnetic and structural properties of FeCoVO
R. Sinclair, J. Ma, H. B. Cao +4
The magnetic and structural properties of single crystal FeCoVO samples have been investigated by performing specific heat, susceptibility, neutron diffractio…
Hierarchy of exchange interactions in the triangular-lattice spin-liquid YbMgGaO
Xinshu Zhang, Fahad Mahmood, Marcus Daum +7
The spin-1/2 triangular lattice antiferromagnet YbMgGaO has attracted recent attention as a quantum spin-liquid candidate with the possible presence of off-diagonal anisotrop…
Intrinsic and extrinsic contributions to spin scattering in Pt
Ryan Freeman, Andrei Zholud, Zhiling Dun +2
We utilize nanoscale spin valves with Pt spacer layers to characterize spin scattering in Pt. Analysis of the spin lifetime determined from our measurements indicates that the extr…