DOI > 10.5291/ILL-DATA.5-53-317

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Title

Structural and Magnetic Characterization of the Kitaev Ground State in Honeycomb SmI3

Abstract

SmI3 is a strong candidate for 2D Kitaev spin liquid physics, given that its cousins YbBr3 and ErBr3 have magnetic Hamiltonians which have suppressed Heisenberg exchange while Sm uniquely has a crystal field ground state capable of hosting the Kitaev state. We will search for structural distortions and magnetic short-range order to demonstrate the Kitaev model, while utilizing the strong octupolar magnetic form factor of Sm3+ to explore the role of multipolar degrees of freedom which could be hidden to many other techniques. The magnetic short range correlations will be used as input to a reverse-Monte Carlo model to fully solve the Kitaev magnetic Hamiltonian.

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David W. Tam; FABELO ROSA Oscar Ramon; FJELLVAG Oystein Slagtern; KENZELMANN Michel; RODRIGUEZ VELAMAZAN Jose Alberto and WILDES Andrew. (2023). Structural and Magnetic Characterization of the Kitaev Ground State in Honeycomb SmI3. Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) doi:10.5291/ILL-DATA.5-53-317

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