Impact of disorder on dynamics and ordering in the honeycomb-lattice iridate
Abstract
Kitaev's honeycomb spin-liquid model and its proposed realization in materials such as α-RuCl3, Li 2IrO3, and Na2IrO3 continue to present open questions about how the dynamics of a spin liquid are modified in the presence of non-Kitaev interactions as well as the presence of inhomogeneities. Here we use 23Na nuclear magnetic resonance to probe both static and dynamical magnetic properties in single-crystal Na2IrO3 . We find that the NMR shift follows the bulk susceptibility above 30 K but deviates from it below; moreover below TN the spectra show a broad distribution of internal magnetic fields. Both of these results provide evidence for inequivalent magnetic sites at low temperature, suggesting inhomogeneities are important for the magnetism. The spin-lattice relaxation rate is isotropic and diverges at TN, suggesting that the Kitaev cubic axes may control the critical quantum spin fluctuations. Finally, in the ordered state, we observe gapless excitations, which may arise from site substitution, emergent defects from milder disorder, or possibly be associated with nearby quantum paramagnetic states distinct from the Kitaev spin liquid.
- Authors:
-
- Technical Univ. of Dresden, Dresden (Germany). Inst. of Solid State and Materials Physics
- Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States); National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, CO (United States). JILA
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); German Research Foundation (DFG); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1616111
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; DMR-1506961; DMR-1807889
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review B
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 101; Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
Citation Formats
Sarkar, R., Mei, Z., Ruiz, A., Lopez, G., Klauss, H. -H., Analytis, J. G., Kimchi, I., and Curro, N. J. Impact of disorder on dynamics and ordering in the honeycomb-lattice iridate Na2IrO3. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.101.081101.
Sarkar, R., Mei, Z., Ruiz, A., Lopez, G., Klauss, H. -H., Analytis, J. G., Kimchi, I., & Curro, N. J. Impact of disorder on dynamics and ordering in the honeycomb-lattice iridate Na2IrO3. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.101.081101
Sarkar, R., Mei, Z., Ruiz, A., Lopez, G., Klauss, H. -H., Analytis, J. G., Kimchi, I., and Curro, N. J. Mon .
"Impact of disorder on dynamics and ordering in the honeycomb-lattice iridate Na2IrO3". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.101.081101. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1616111.
@article{osti_1616111,
title = {Impact of disorder on dynamics and ordering in the honeycomb-lattice iridate Na2IrO3},
author = {Sarkar, R. and Mei, Z. and Ruiz, A. and Lopez, G. and Klauss, H. -H. and Analytis, J. G. and Kimchi, I. and Curro, N. J.},
abstractNote = {Kitaev's honeycomb spin-liquid model and its proposed realization in materials such as α-RuCl3, Li 2IrO3, and Na2IrO3 continue to present open questions about how the dynamics of a spin liquid are modified in the presence of non-Kitaev interactions as well as the presence of inhomogeneities. Here we use 23Na nuclear magnetic resonance to probe both static and dynamical magnetic properties in single-crystal Na2IrO3 . We find that the NMR shift follows the bulk susceptibility above 30 K but deviates from it below; moreover below TN the spectra show a broad distribution of internal magnetic fields. Both of these results provide evidence for inequivalent magnetic sites at low temperature, suggesting inhomogeneities are important for the magnetism. The spin-lattice relaxation rate is isotropic and diverges at TN, suggesting that the Kitaev cubic axes may control the critical quantum spin fluctuations. Finally, in the ordered state, we observe gapless excitations, which may arise from site substitution, emergent defects from milder disorder, or possibly be associated with nearby quantum paramagnetic states distinct from the Kitaev spin liquid.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.101.081101},
journal = {Physical Review B},
number = 8,
volume = 101,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Feb 03 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Mon Feb 03 00:00:00 EST 2020}
}
Web of Science
Works referenced in this record:
Zigzag Magnetic Order in the Iridium Oxide
journal, February 2013
- Chaloupka, Jiří; Jackeli, George; Khaliullin, Giniyat
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 110, Issue 9
Concept and realization of Kitaev quantum spin liquids
journal, March 2019
- Takagi, Hidenori; Takayama, Tomohiro; Jackeli, George
- Nature Reviews Physics, Vol. 1, Issue 4
Dynamics of a Two-Dimensional Quantum Spin Liquid: Signatures of Emergent Majorana Fermions and Fluxes
journal, May 2014
- Knolle, J.; Kovrizhin, D. L.; Chalker, J. T.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 112, Issue 20
Observation of two types of fractional excitation in the Kitaev honeycomb magnet
journal, May 2018
- Janša, Nejc; Zorko, Andrej; Gomilšek, Matjaž
- Nature Physics, Vol. 14, Issue 8
Anisotropic temperature-field phase diagram of single crystalline : Magnetization, specific heat, and NMR study
journal, July 2019
- Majumder, M.; Freund, F.; Dey, T.
- Physical Review Materials, Vol. 3, Issue 7
Physics of the Kitaev Model: Fractionalization, Dynamic Correlations, and Material Connections
journal, March 2018
- Hermanns, M.; Kimchi, I.; Knolle, J.
- Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, Vol. 9, Issue 1
as a Novel Relativistic Mott Insulator with a 340-meV Gap
journal, December 2012
- Comin, R.; Levy, G.; Ludbrook, B.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 109, Issue 26
Chemical and hydrostatic-pressure effects on the Kitaev honeycomb material
journal, September 2018
- Simutis, G.; Barbero, N.; Rolfs, K.
- Physical Review B, Vol. 98, Issue 10
Nuclear magnetic resonance in the heavy fermion superconductors
journal, January 2009
- Curro, N. J.
- Reports on Progress in Physics, Vol. 72, Issue 2
The Effect of Electron-Electron Interaction on the Nuclear Spin Relaxation in Metals
journal, April 1963
- Moriya, Tôru
- Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, Vol. 18, Issue 4
Local magnetic inhomogeneities in as seen via NMR
journal, October 2010
- Dioguardi, A. P.; apRoberts-Warren, N.; Shockley, A. C.
- Physical Review B, Vol. 82, Issue 14
Local magnetism and spin dynamics of the frustrated honeycomb rhodate
journal, September 2017
- Khuntia, P.; Manni, S.; Foronda, F. R.
- Physical Review B, Vol. 96, Issue 9
Evidence for a Field-Induced Quantum Spin Liquid in -
journal, July 2017
- Baek, S. -H.; Do, S. -H.; Choi, K. -Y.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 119, Issue 3
Relevance of the Heisenberg-Kitaev Model for the Honeycomb Lattice Iridates
journal, March 2012
- Singh, Yogesh; Manni, S.; Reuther, J.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 108, Issue 12
Spin Waves and Revised Crystal Structure of Honeycomb Iridate
journal, March 2012
- Choi, S. K.; Coldea, R.; Kolmogorov, A. N.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 108, Issue 12
Low-Energy Spin Dynamics of the Honeycomb Spin Liquid Beyond the Kitaev Limit
journal, July 2016
- Song, Xue-Yang; You, Yi-Zhuang; Balents, Leon
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 117, Issue 3
Nuclear magnetic resonance Knight shifts in the presence of strong spin–orbit and crystal-field potentials
journal, July 2016
- Nisson, D. M.; Curro, N. J.
- New Journal of Physics, Vol. 18, Issue 7
Gapless Spin Excitations in the Field-Induced Quantum Spin Liquid Phase of
journal, December 2017
- Zheng, Jiacheng; Ran, Kejing; Li, Tianrun
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 119, Issue 22
Magnetic order and spin dynamics in probed by Mössbauer, NMR, and muon-spin relaxation spectroscopy
journal, November 2014
- Günther, M.; Kamusella, S.; Sarkar, R.
- Physical Review B, Vol. 90, Issue 18
A spin–orbital-entangled quantum liquid on a honeycomb lattice
journal, February 2018
- Kitagawa, K.; Takayama, T.; Matsumoto, Y.
- Nature, Vol. 554, Issue 7692
Scaling and data collapse from local moments in frustrated disordered quantum spin systems
journal, October 2018
- Kimchi, Itamar; Sheckelton, John P.; McQueen, Tyrel M.
- Nature Communications, Vol. 9, Issue 1
Direct evidence of a zigzag spin-chain structure in the honeycomb lattice: A neutron and x-ray diffraction investigation of single-crystal Na IrO
journal, May 2012
- Ye, Feng; Chi, Songxue; Cao, Huibo
- Physical Review B, Vol. 85, Issue 18
Nuclear Spin-Lattice Relaxation in Magnetic Insulators
journal, February 1968
- Beeman, D.; Pincus, P.
- Physical Review, Vol. 166, Issue 2
Dynamics of fractionalization in quantum spin liquids
journal, September 2015
- Knolle, J.; Kovrizhin, D. L.; Chalker, J. T.
- Physical Review B, Vol. 92, Issue 11
Observation of two types of fractional excitation in the Kitaev honeycomb magnet
text, January 2018
- Jansa, N.; Zorko, A.; Gomilsek, M.
- Nature Publishing Group
Mott Insulators in the Strong Spin-Orbit Coupling Limit: From Heisenberg to a Quantum Compass and Kitaev Models
journal, January 2009
- Jackeli, G.; Khaliullin, G.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 102, Issue 1
Valence Bonds in Random Quantum Magnets: Theory and Application to
journal, July 2018
- Kimchi, Itamar; Nahum, Adam; Senthil, T.
- Physical Review X, Vol. 8, Issue 3
Direct evidence for dominant bond-directional interactions in a honeycomb lattice iridate Na2IrO3
journal, May 2015
- Hwan Chun, Sae; Kim, Jong-Woo; Kim, Jungho
- Nature Physics, Vol. 11, Issue 6
Long-range magnetic ordering in Na IrO
journal, June 2011
- Liu, X.; Berlijn, T.; Yin, W. -G.
- Physical Review B, Vol. 83, Issue 22
Physics of the Kitaev model: fractionalization, dynamical correlations, and material connections
text, January 2018
- Hermanns, Maria; Kimchi, Itamar; Knolle, Johannes
- Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Low-energy Spin Dynamics of the Honeycomb Spin Liquid Beyond the Kitaev Limit
text, January 2016
- Song, Xue-Yang; You, Yi-Zhuang; Balents, Leon
- arXiv
Scaling and data collapse from local moments in frustrated disordered quantum spin systems
text, January 2018
- Kimchi, Itamar; Sheckelton, John P.; McQueen, Tyrel M.
- arXiv