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Title: Absence of Jahn-Teller transition in the hexagonal Ba3CuSb2O9 single crystal

Abstract

With decreasing temperature, liquids generally freeze into a solid state, losing entropy in the process. However, exceptions to this trend exist, such as quantum liquids, which may remain unfrozen down to absolute zero owing to strong quantum entanglement effects that stabilize a disordered state with zero entropy. Examples of such liquids include Bose-Einstein condensation of cold atoms, superconductivity, quantum Hall state of electron systems, and quantum spin liquid state in the frustrated magnets. Furthermore, recent studies have clarified the possibility of another exotic quantum liquid state based on the spin-orbital entanglement in FeSc2S4. To confirm this exotic ground state, experiments based on single-crystalline samples are essential. However, no such single-crystal study has been reported to date. Here, we report, to our knowledge, the first single-crystal study on the spin-orbital liquid candidate, 6H-Ba3CuSb2O9, and we have confirmed the absence of an orbital frozen state. In strongly correlated electron systems, orbital ordering usually appears at high temperatures in a process accompanied by a lattice deformation, called a static Jahn-Teller distortion. By combining synchrotron X-ray diffraction, electron spin resonance, Raman spectroscopy, and ultrasound measurements, we find that the static Jahn-Teller distortion is absent in the present material, which indicates that orbital ordering ismore » suppressed down to the lowest temperatures measured. Lastly, we discuss how such an unusual feature is realized with the help of spin degree of freedom, leading to a spin-orbital entangled quantum liquid state.« less

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [6];  [2];  [7];  [1];  [1];  [6];  [7];  [7];  [7];  [4];  [7];  [1];  [8]
  1. Nagoya Univ. (Japan)
  2. Univ. of Tokyo (Japan)
  3. Osaka Univ. (Japan); Huzhong Univ. of Science and Technology, Wuhan (China)
  4. Tohoku Univ., Sendai (Japan)
  5. Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD (United States)
  6. Iwate Univ., Morioka (Japan)
  7. Osaka Univ. (Japan)
  8. Univ. of Tokyo (Japan); Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Saitama (Japan). PRESTO
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Research Org.:
Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1349036
Grant/Contract Number:  
FG02-08ER46544
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 112; Journal Issue: 30; Journal ID: ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher:
National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC (United States)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; Ba3CuSb2O9; Jahn–Teller transition; quantum liquid state; spin-orbital entanglement; synchrotron X-ray diffraction

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Katayama, Naoyuki, Kimura, Kenta, Han, Yibo, Nasu, Joji, Drichko, Natalia, Nakanishi, Yoshiki, Halim, Mario, Ishiguro, Yuki, Satake, Ryuta, Nishibori, Eiji, Yoshizawa, Masahito, Nakano, Takehito, Nozue, Yasuo, Wakabayashi, Yusuke, Ishihara, Sumio, Hagiwara, Masayuki, Sawa, Hiroshi, and Nakatsuji, Satoru. Absence of Jahn-Teller transition in the hexagonal Ba3CuSb2O9 single crystal. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1073/pnas.1508941112.
Katayama, Naoyuki, Kimura, Kenta, Han, Yibo, Nasu, Joji, Drichko, Natalia, Nakanishi, Yoshiki, Halim, Mario, Ishiguro, Yuki, Satake, Ryuta, Nishibori, Eiji, Yoshizawa, Masahito, Nakano, Takehito, Nozue, Yasuo, Wakabayashi, Yusuke, Ishihara, Sumio, Hagiwara, Masayuki, Sawa, Hiroshi, & Nakatsuji, Satoru. Absence of Jahn-Teller transition in the hexagonal Ba3CuSb2O9 single crystal. United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1508941112
Katayama, Naoyuki, Kimura, Kenta, Han, Yibo, Nasu, Joji, Drichko, Natalia, Nakanishi, Yoshiki, Halim, Mario, Ishiguro, Yuki, Satake, Ryuta, Nishibori, Eiji, Yoshizawa, Masahito, Nakano, Takehito, Nozue, Yasuo, Wakabayashi, Yusuke, Ishihara, Sumio, Hagiwara, Masayuki, Sawa, Hiroshi, and Nakatsuji, Satoru. Mon . "Absence of Jahn-Teller transition in the hexagonal Ba3CuSb2O9 single crystal". United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1508941112. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1349036.
@article{osti_1349036,
title = {Absence of Jahn-Teller transition in the hexagonal Ba3CuSb2O9 single crystal},
author = {Katayama, Naoyuki and Kimura, Kenta and Han, Yibo and Nasu, Joji and Drichko, Natalia and Nakanishi, Yoshiki and Halim, Mario and Ishiguro, Yuki and Satake, Ryuta and Nishibori, Eiji and Yoshizawa, Masahito and Nakano, Takehito and Nozue, Yasuo and Wakabayashi, Yusuke and Ishihara, Sumio and Hagiwara, Masayuki and Sawa, Hiroshi and Nakatsuji, Satoru},
abstractNote = {With decreasing temperature, liquids generally freeze into a solid state, losing entropy in the process. However, exceptions to this trend exist, such as quantum liquids, which may remain unfrozen down to absolute zero owing to strong quantum entanglement effects that stabilize a disordered state with zero entropy. Examples of such liquids include Bose-Einstein condensation of cold atoms, superconductivity, quantum Hall state of electron systems, and quantum spin liquid state in the frustrated magnets. Furthermore, recent studies have clarified the possibility of another exotic quantum liquid state based on the spin-orbital entanglement in FeSc2S4. To confirm this exotic ground state, experiments based on single-crystalline samples are essential. However, no such single-crystal study has been reported to date. Here, we report, to our knowledge, the first single-crystal study on the spin-orbital liquid candidate, 6H-Ba3CuSb2O9, and we have confirmed the absence of an orbital frozen state. In strongly correlated electron systems, orbital ordering usually appears at high temperatures in a process accompanied by a lattice deformation, called a static Jahn-Teller distortion. By combining synchrotron X-ray diffraction, electron spin resonance, Raman spectroscopy, and ultrasound measurements, we find that the static Jahn-Teller distortion is absent in the present material, which indicates that orbital ordering is suppressed down to the lowest temperatures measured. Lastly, we discuss how such an unusual feature is realized with the help of spin degree of freedom, leading to a spin-orbital entangled quantum liquid state.},
doi = {10.1073/pnas.1508941112},
journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},
number = 30,
volume = 112,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jul 13 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Mon Jul 13 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}

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