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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…
Finite Temperature Magnetism in the Triangular Lattice Antiferromagnet KErTe2
Weiwei Liu, Zheng Zhang, Dayu Yan +6
After the discovery of the ARECh2 (A=alkali or monovalent ions, RE=rare-earth, Ch= chalcogen) triangular lattice quantum spin liquid (QSL) family, a series of its oxide, sulfide, a…
Magnetism of : From finite temperatures to ground state
Weizhen Zhuo, Zheng Zhang, Mingtai Xie +4
Rare-earth chalcogenide compounds (A = alkali or monovalent metal, RE = rare earth, Ch = O, S, Se, Te) are a large family of quantum spin liquid (QSL) candidate…
Observation of Rydberg moiré excitons
Qianying Hu, Zhen Zhan, Huiying Cui +13
Rydberg excitons, the solid-state counterparts of Rydberg atoms, have sparked considerable interest in harnessing their quantum application potentials, whereas a major challenge is…
Anisotropic exchange coupling and ground state phase diagram of Kitaev compound YbOCl
Zheng Zhang, Yanzhen Cai, Jing Kang +6
Rare-earth chalcohalide REChX (RE = rare earth; Ch = O, S, Se, Te; X = F, Cl, Br, I) is a newly reported family of Kitaev spin liquid candidates. The family offers a platform where…
Low-energy Spin Dynamics of Quantum Spin Liquid Candidate
Zheng Zhang, Jianshu Li, Mingtai Xie +10
The family of rare earth chalcogenides (A = alkali or monovalent ions, RE = rare earth, and Ch = O, S, Se, and Te) appears as an inspiring playground for studying quant…
Effects of the Crystalline Electric Field in the Quantum Spin Liquid Candidate
Weiwei Liu, Zheng Zhang, Dayu Yan +6
In this paper, we performed thermodynamic and electron spin resonance (ESR) measurements to study low-energy magnetic excitations, which were significantly affected by crystalline…
Effective Model for Rare-earth Kitaev Materials and its Classical Monte Carlo Simulation
Mengjie Sun, Huihang Lin, Zheng Zhang +9
Recently, the family of rare-earth chalcohalides were proposed as candidate compounds to realize the Kitaev spin liquid (KSL). In the present work, we firstly propose an effective…
Two-magnon Raman scattering in antiferromagnetic phases of frustrated spin models on the honeycomb lattice
Junru Pan, Feng Jin, Jianting Ji +2
We calculate the two-magnon Raman scattering spectra in antiferromagnetic phases of several frustrated spin models defined on the honeycomb lattice. These include the Néel antiferr…
Rare-earth chalcohalides: A family of van der Waals layered Kitaev spin liquid candidates
Jianting Ji, Mengjie Sun, Yanzhen Cai +6
Kitaev spin liquid (KSL) system has attracted tremendous attention in past years because of its fundamental significance in condensed matter physics and promising applications in f…
First order transition in trigonal structure
Y. J. Li, F. Jin, Z. Y. Mi +13
We report structural and physical properties of the single crystalline . The X-ray diffraction(XRD) results show that ${\mathrm{Ca}}…
Effective Magnetic Hamiltonian at Finite Temperatures for Rare Earth Chalcogenides
Zheng Zhang, Jianshu Li, Weiwei Liu +8
Alkali metal rare-earth chalcogenide (A=alkali or monovalent metal, RE=rare earth, Ch=O, S, Se, Te), is a large family of quantum spin liquid (QSL) candidates we discovere…
Dimensional Crossover Tuned by Pressure in Layered Magnetic NiPS3
Xiaoli Ma, Yimeng Wang, Yunyu Yin +8
Layered magnetic transition-metal thiophosphate NiPS3 has unique two-dimensional (2D) magnetic properties and electronic behavior. The electronic band structure and corresponding m…
Pressure induced metallization and possible unconventional superconductivity in spin liquid
Zheng Zhang, Yunyu Yin, Xiaoli Ma +8
Beyond the conventional electron pairing mediated by phonons, high-temperature superconductivity in cuprates is believed to stem from quantum spin liquid (QSL). The unconventional…
Crystalline Electric-Field Excitations in Quantum Spin Liquids Candidate
Zheng Zhang, Xiaoli Ma, Jianshu Li +10
Very recently we revealed a large family of triangular lattice quantum spin liquid candidates named rare-earth chalcogenides, which features a high-symmetry structure without struc…
Experimental identification of electric dipoles induced by magnetic monopoles in Tb2Ti2O7
Feng Jin, Changle Liu, Anmin Zhang +4
The fundamental principles of electrodynamics allow an electron carrying both electric monopole (charge) and magnetic dipole (spin) but prohibit its magnetic counterpart. Recently…
Raman scattering study of large magnetoresistance semimetals TaAs and NbAs
Feng Jin, Xiaoli Ma, Pengjie Guo +12
We have performed polarized and temperature-dependent Raman scattering measurements on extremely large magnetoresitance compounds TaAs and NbAs. In both crystals, all the R…
Raman phonons in the ferroelectric-like metal LiOsO
Feng Jin, Anmin Zhang, Jianting Ji +6
The novel ferroelectric-like structural transition observed in metallic LiOsO [Y. Shi et al., Nat. Mater. 12, 1024 (2013)], has invoked many theoretical and experimental intere…
Raman scattering in transition metal dichalcogenides MTe2 (M = Mo, W)
Xiaoli Ma, Pengjie Guo, Changjing Yi +10
We performed comparable polarized Raman scattering studies of MoTe2 and WTe2. By rotating crystals to tune the angle between the principal axis of the crystals and the polarization…
Gapless quantum spin liquid ground state in the two-dimensional spin-1/2 triangular antiferromagnet YbMgGaO
Yuesheng Li, Haijun Liao, Zhen Zhang +10
Quantum spin liquid (QSL) is a novel state of matter which refuses the conventional spin freezing even at 0 K. Experimentally searching for the structurally perfect candidates is a…
Raman scattering in superconducting NdO1-xFxBiS2 crystals
Yong Tian, Anmin Zhang, Kai Liu +7
The recently discovered layered BiS2-based superconductors have attracted a great deal of interest due to their structural similarity to cuprate and iron-pnictide superconductors.…