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| author | Abdeldaim, Aly H. Gretarsson, Hlynur Day, Sarah J. Le, M. Duc Stenning, Gavin B. G. Manuel, Pascal Perry, Robin S. Tsirlin, Alexander A. Nilsen, Gøran J. Clark, Lucy |
| author_facet | Abdeldaim, Aly H. Gretarsson, Hlynur Day, Sarah J. Le, M. Duc Stenning, Gavin B. G. Manuel, Pascal Perry, Robin S. Tsirlin, Alexander A. Nilsen, Gøran J. Clark, Lucy |
| contents | Magnetic materials are composed of the simple building blocks of magnetic moments on a crystal lattice that interact via magnetic exchange. Yet from this simplicity emerges a remarkable diversity of magnetic states. Some reveal the deep quantum mechanical origins of magnetism, for example, quantum spin liquid (QSL) states in which magnetic moments remain disordered at low temperatures despite being strongly correlated through quantum entanglement. A promising theoretical model of a QSL is the Kitaev model, composed of unusual bond-dependent exchange interactions, but experimentally, this model is challenging to realise. Here we show that the material requirements for the Kitaev QSL survive an extended pseudo-edge-sharing superexchange pathway of Ru3+ octahedra within the honeycomb layers of the inorganic framework solid, RuP3SiO11. We confirm the requisite jeff = 1/2 state of Ru3+ in RuP3SiO11 and resolve the hierarchy of exchange interactions that provide experimental access to an unexplored region of the Kitaev model. |
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| spellingShingle | Kitaev Interactions Through an Extended Superexchange Pathway in the jeff = 1/2 Ru3+ Honeycomb Magnet, RuP3SiO11 Abdeldaim, Aly H. Gretarsson, Hlynur Day, Sarah J. Le, M. Duc Stenning, Gavin B. G. Manuel, Pascal Perry, Robin S. Tsirlin, Alexander A. Nilsen, Gøran J. Clark, Lucy Strongly Correlated Electrons Materials Science Magnetic materials are composed of the simple building blocks of magnetic moments on a crystal lattice that interact via magnetic exchange. Yet from this simplicity emerges a remarkable diversity of magnetic states. Some reveal the deep quantum mechanical origins of magnetism, for example, quantum spin liquid (QSL) states in which magnetic moments remain disordered at low temperatures despite being strongly correlated through quantum entanglement. A promising theoretical model of a QSL is the Kitaev model, composed of unusual bond-dependent exchange interactions, but experimentally, this model is challenging to realise. Here we show that the material requirements for the Kitaev QSL survive an extended pseudo-edge-sharing superexchange pathway of Ru3+ octahedra within the honeycomb layers of the inorganic framework solid, RuP3SiO11. We confirm the requisite jeff = 1/2 state of Ru3+ in RuP3SiO11 and resolve the hierarchy of exchange interactions that provide experimental access to an unexplored region of the Kitaev model. |
| title | Kitaev Interactions Through an Extended Superexchange Pathway in the jeff = 1/2 Ru3+ Honeycomb Magnet, RuP3SiO11 |
| topic | Strongly Correlated Electrons Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19406 |