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Freezing of a Disorder Induced Spin Liquid with Strong Quantum Fluctuations

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Author(s)

Xiao Hu, Daniel M. Pajerowski, Depei Zhang, Andrey Podlesnyak, Yiming Qiu, Qing Huang, Haidong Zhou, Israel Klich, Alexander I. Kolesnikov, M. B. Stone, Seung-Hun Lee

Abstract

Sr2CuTe0.5W0.5O6 is a square-lattice magnet with super-exchange between S = 1/2 Cu2+ spins mediated by randomly distributed Te and W ions. Here, using sub-K temperature and 20 µeV energy resolution neutron scattering experiments we show that this system transits from a gapless disorder-induced quantum spin liquid to a new quantum state below Tf = 1.7(1) K, exhibiting a weak frozen moment of (s)/S 0.1 and low energy dynamic susceptibility, X"(ħω), linear in energy which is surprising for such a weak freezing in this highly fluctuating quantum regime.
Citation
Physical Review Letters
Volume
127
Issue
1

Keywords

quantum spin liquid, quantum spin jam, neutron scattering

Citation

Hu, X. , Pajerowski, D. , Zhang, D. , Podlesnyak, A. , Qiu, Y. , Huang, Q. , Zhou, H. , Klich, I. , Kolesnikov, A. , Stone, M. and Lee, S. (2021), Freezing of a Disorder Induced Spin Liquid with Strong Quantum Fluctuations, Physical Review Letters (Accessed March 29, 2024)
Created June 28, 2021, Updated November 29, 2022