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| author | Papawassiliou, Wassilios Lazaridis, Nicolas Mpanga, Eunice Mumba Koppe, Jonas Panopoulos, Nikolaos Karagianni, Marina Gkoura, Lydia Berthelot, Romain Fardis, Michael Pell, Andrew J. Papavassiliou, Georgios |
| author_facet | Papawassiliou, Wassilios Lazaridis, Nicolas Mpanga, Eunice Mumba Koppe, Jonas Panopoulos, Nikolaos Karagianni, Marina Gkoura, Lydia Berthelot, Romain Fardis, Michael Pell, Andrew J. Papavassiliou, Georgios |
| contents | The suppression of magnetic order and the detection of a half-quantized thermal Hall effect in α-RuCl3 under an external magnetic field have sparked significant debate, whether these phenomena point to spin fractionalization, as posited by the Kitaev quantum spin liquid (QSL) model, or if they arise from a more conventional mechanism in an antiferromagnetically ordered spin state. Here, through 23Na NMR relaxation measurements on the layered cobaltate Na2Co2TeO6 at two distinct magnetic fields (4.7 and 9.4 Tesla), we provide compelling evidence supporting a variant interpretation. While upon cooling, the NMR relaxation times align with the temperature dependence predicted by Kitaev fractional spin excitations, below 10 K, a dynamically heterogeneous state is detected with Quantum Spin Glass (QSG) characteristics. In this state, the spin fractionalization dynamics unfold over markedly different time scales, and are characterized by quantum metastability, inducing prolonged equilibration as T->0. This observation challenges the prevailing view of a primarily homogeneous QSL state, as the ground state of tangible Kitaev systems. |
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| spellingShingle | The Role of Quantum Metastability and the Perspective of Quantum Glassiness in Kitaev Fractional Spin Dynamics: An NMR Study Papawassiliou, Wassilios Lazaridis, Nicolas Mpanga, Eunice Mumba Koppe, Jonas Panopoulos, Nikolaos Karagianni, Marina Gkoura, Lydia Berthelot, Romain Fardis, Michael Pell, Andrew J. Papavassiliou, Georgios Strongly Correlated Electrons The suppression of magnetic order and the detection of a half-quantized thermal Hall effect in α-RuCl3 under an external magnetic field have sparked significant debate, whether these phenomena point to spin fractionalization, as posited by the Kitaev quantum spin liquid (QSL) model, or if they arise from a more conventional mechanism in an antiferromagnetically ordered spin state. Here, through 23Na NMR relaxation measurements on the layered cobaltate Na2Co2TeO6 at two distinct magnetic fields (4.7 and 9.4 Tesla), we provide compelling evidence supporting a variant interpretation. While upon cooling, the NMR relaxation times align with the temperature dependence predicted by Kitaev fractional spin excitations, below 10 K, a dynamically heterogeneous state is detected with Quantum Spin Glass (QSG) characteristics. In this state, the spin fractionalization dynamics unfold over markedly different time scales, and are characterized by quantum metastability, inducing prolonged equilibration as T->0. This observation challenges the prevailing view of a primarily homogeneous QSL state, as the ground state of tangible Kitaev systems. |
| title | The Role of Quantum Metastability and the Perspective of Quantum Glassiness in Kitaev Fractional Spin Dynamics: An NMR Study |
| topic | Strongly Correlated Electrons |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.14663 |