Paper: Field-tunable quantum disordered ground state in the triangular-lattice antiferromagnet NaYbO2
July 29, 2019
Our paper was published today reporting the discovery of a novel, field tunable quantum disordered magnetic state in NaYbO2. Our results suggest a Dirac spin liquid state forms in this material whose degeneracy can be broken and driven into an intermediate "up-up-down" antiferromagnetic state via the application of a magnetic field. It suggests an exciting new frontier of exploring the critical phase boundary between a quantum spin liquid and antiferromagnetically ordered state.
The paper can be found here: Nature Physics