Quantum magnetism in minerals

DS Inosov - Advances in Physics, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The discovery of magnetism by the ancient Greeks was enabled by the natural occurrence of
lodestone–a magnetized version of the mineral magnetite. Nowadays, natural minerals …

Phase separation and frustrated square lattice magnetism of NaVOPOF

AA Tsirlin, R Nath, AM Abakumov, Y Furukawa… - Physical Review B …, 2011 - APS
Crystal structure, electronic structure, and magnetic behavior of the spin-1 2 quantum
magnet Na 1.5 VOPO 4 F 0.5 are reported. The disorder of Na atoms leads to a sequence of …

High-field calorimetric studies on low-dimensional and frustrated quantum magnets

Y Kohama - Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 2022 - journals.jps.jp
Significant advances in the experimentally measuring high-field entropy have been made
over the last three decades, which have improved our knowledge of magnetic materials …

Magnetic order in the quasi-one-dimensional spin- molecular chain compound copper pyrazine dinitrate

T Lancaster, SJ Blundell, ML Brooks, PJ Baker… - Physical Review B …, 2006 - APS
We present evidence of magnetic order in the quasi-one-dimensional spin-1/2 molecular
chain compound, copper pyrazine dinitrate Cu (C 4 H 4 N 2)(NO 3) 2. Zero field muon-spin …

Van Hove singularity in the magnon spectrum of the antiferromagnetic quantum honeycomb lattice

G Sala, MB Stone, BK Rai, AF May, P Laurell… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
In quantum magnets, magnetic moments fluctuate heavily and are strongly entangled with
each other, a fundamental distinction from classical magnetism. Here, with inelastic neutron …

Evidence of a field-induced Berezinskii–Kosterlitz–Thouless scenario in a two-dimensional spin–dimer system

U Tutsch, B Wolf, S Wessel, L Postulka, Y Tsui… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) systems with continuous symmetry lack conventional long-
range order because of thermal fluctuations. Instead, as pointed out by Berezinskii, Kosterlitz …

A quantum critical Bose gas of magnons in the quasi-two-dimensional antiferromagnet YbCl3 under magnetic fields

Y Matsumoto, S Schnierer, JAN Bruin, J Nuss, P Reiss… - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Bose–Einstein condensation (BEC) is a quantum phenomenon in which a macroscopic
number of bosons occupy the lowest energy state and acquire coherence at low …

Physical properties of the quasi-two-dimensional square lattice antiferromagnet

TH Jang, SH Do, M Lee, H Wu, CM Brown… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We report magnetization (χ, M), magnetic specific heat (CM), and neutron powder diffraction
results on a quasi-two-dimensional (2D) S= 2 square lattice antiferromagnet Ba 2 FeSi 2 O 7 …

Half-magnetization plateau and the origin of threefold symmetry breaking in an electrically switchable triangular antiferromagnet

SC Haley, SF Weber, T Cookmeyer, DE Parker… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
We perform high-field magnetization measurements on the triangular lattice antiferromagnet
Fe 1/3 Nb S 2. We observe a plateau in the magnetization centered at approximately half the …

Field-tunable Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless correlations in a Heisenberg magnet

D Opherden, MSJ Tepaske, F Bärtl, M Weber… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We report the manifestation of field-induced Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT)
correlations in the weakly coupled spin-1/2 Heisenberg layers of the molecular-based bulk …