3 papers
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025
Anomalous enhancement of magnetism by nonmagnetic doping in the honeycomb-lattice antiferromagnet ErOCl
Yanzhen Cai, Mingtai Xie, Jing Kang +8
Tuning magnetic anisotropy through chemical doping is a powerful strategy for designing functional materials with enhanced magnetic properties. Here, we report an enhanced Er^3+ ma…
cond-mat.str-el2024
Crystalline electric field excitations and their nonlinear splitting under magnetic fields in YbOCl
Yanzhen Cai, Wei Ren, Xijing Dai +8
Recently reported van der Waals layered honeycomb rare-earth chalcohalides REChX (RE = rare earth, Ch = chalcogen, and X = halogen) are considered to be promising Kitaev spin liqui…
cond-mat.str-el2024
Ground State Magnetic Structure and Magnetic Field Effects in the Layered Honeycomb Antiferromagnet YbOCl
Zheng Zhang, Yanzhen Cai, Jinlong Jiao +8
YbOCl is a representative member of the van der Waals layered honeycomb rare-earth chalcohalide REChX (RE = rare earth, Ch = O, S, Se, and Te, and X = F, Cl, Br, and I) family repo…