Spin Liquid State and Topological Structural Defects in Hexagonal
Abstract
The coexistence of ferroelectricity and a spin liquid state in hexagonal TbInO3 with quasi-two-dimensional triangular spin lattice is introduced in this work. Geometrical ferroelectricity associated with In trimerization accompanies topological ferroelectric structural defects. Magnetic susceptibility data show in-plane magnetic anisotropy of Tb spins without any long-range order above 1.8 K, and we also confirm no trace of any phase transition down to 0.15 K from a specific heat measurement, which indicates that this system is highly frustrated and may host a spin liquid ground state. By analyzing the Schottky anomaly in the specific heat results, we propose a model where crystal-field levels are different in each Tb sites, and only one of them has a magnetic ground state and forms a unique honeycomb spin lattice. These observations bring up an interesting possibility where spin liquid and ferroelectric behaviors coexist, and the atomically sharp ferroelectric domain walls may host new magnetic edge states or local spin excitations.
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Kim, Jaewook, Wang, Xueyun, Huang, Fei-Ting, Wang, Yazhong, Fang, Xiaochen, Luo, Xuan, Li, Y., Wu, Meixia, Mori, S., Kwok, D., Mun, Eun Deok, Zapf, V. S., and Cheong, Sang-Wook. Spin Liquid State and Topological Structural Defects in Hexagonal TbInO 3. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevX.9.031005.
Kim, Jaewook, Wang, Xueyun, Huang, Fei-Ting, Wang, Yazhong, Fang, Xiaochen, Luo, Xuan, Li, Y., Wu, Meixia, Mori, S., Kwok, D., Mun, Eun Deok, Zapf, V. S., & Cheong, Sang-Wook. Spin Liquid State and Topological Structural Defects in Hexagonal TbInO 3. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.9.031005
Kim, Jaewook, Wang, Xueyun, Huang, Fei-Ting, Wang, Yazhong, Fang, Xiaochen, Luo, Xuan, Li, Y., Wu, Meixia, Mori, S., Kwok, D., Mun, Eun Deok, Zapf, V. S., and Cheong, Sang-Wook. Tue .
"Spin Liquid State and Topological Structural Defects in Hexagonal TbInO 3". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.9.031005.
@article{osti_1532583,
title = {Spin Liquid State and Topological Structural Defects in Hexagonal TbInO 3},
author = {Kim, Jaewook and Wang, Xueyun and Huang, Fei-Ting and Wang, Yazhong and Fang, Xiaochen and Luo, Xuan and Li, Y. and Wu, Meixia and Mori, S. and Kwok, D. and Mun, Eun Deok and Zapf, V. S. and Cheong, Sang-Wook},
abstractNote = {The coexistence of ferroelectricity and a spin liquid state in hexagonal TbInO3 with quasi-two-dimensional triangular spin lattice is introduced in this work. Geometrical ferroelectricity associated with In trimerization accompanies topological ferroelectric structural defects. Magnetic susceptibility data show in-plane magnetic anisotropy of Tb spins without any long-range order above 1.8 K, and we also confirm no trace of any phase transition down to 0.15 K from a specific heat measurement, which indicates that this system is highly frustrated and may host a spin liquid ground state. By analyzing the Schottky anomaly in the specific heat results, we propose a model where crystal-field levels are different in each Tb sites, and only one of them has a magnetic ground state and forms a unique honeycomb spin lattice. These observations bring up an interesting possibility where spin liquid and ferroelectric behaviors coexist, and the atomically sharp ferroelectric domain walls may host new magnetic edge states or local spin excitations.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevX.9.031005},
journal = {Physical Review. X},
number = 3,
volume = 9,
place = {United States},
year = {2019},
month = {7}
}
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