Emergent Honeycomb Lattice in LiZn[subscript 2]Mo[subscript 3]O[subscript 8]
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Flint, Rebecca
Lee, Patrick A.
Date Issued
November 2013
Journal
Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society
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Flint, Rebecca, and Patrick A. Lee. “Emergent Honeycomb Lattice in LiZn[subscript 2]Mo[subscript 3]O[subscript 8].” Physical Review Letters 111, no. 21 (November 2013). © 2013 American Physical Society
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Abstract
We introduce the idea of emergent lattices, where a simple lattice decouples into two weakly coupled lattices as a way to stabilize spin liquids. In LiZn[subscript 2]Mo[subscript 3]O[subscript 8], the disappearance of 2/3 of the spins at low temperatures suggests that its triangular lattice decouples into an emergent honeycomb lattice weakly coupled to the remaining spins, and we suggest several ways to test this proposal. We show that these orphan spins act to stabilize the spin liquid in the J[subscript 1]-J[subscript 2] honeycomb model and also discuss a possible 3D analogue, Ba[subscript 2]MoYO[subscript 6] that may form a “depleted fcc lattice.”
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.217201
