We review the recent advances and current challenges in the field of strong spin-orbit
coupled Kitaev materials, with a particular emphasis on the physics beyond the exactly …

The properties of transition metal compounds are largely determined by nontrivial interplay
of different degrees of freedom: charge, spin, lattice, and also orbital ones. Especially rich …

Transition metal catalysts are known to activate persulfate, but the properties that govern the
intrinsic activity of these catalysts are still unknown. Here, we developed a series of catalysts …

The current efforts to find the materials hosting Kitaev model physics have been focused on
Mott insulators of d 5 pseudospin-1/2 ions Ir 4+ and Ru 3+ with t 2 g 5 (S= 1/2, L= 1) …

We study the exchange interactions and resulting magnetic phases in the honeycomb
cobaltates. For a broad range of trigonal crystal fields acting on Co 2+ ions, the low-energy …

In transition-metal compounds with partially filled 4 d and 5 d shells spin–orbit
entanglement, electronic correlations, and crystal-field effects conspire to give rise to a …

Structural and compositional defects in crystalline materials are unavoidable. Accurately
disentangling their role in composition–structure–property correlations is therefore essential …

Co 2+ ions in an octahedral crystal field stabilize aj eff= 1/2 ground state with an orbital
degree of freedom and have been recently put forward for realizing Kitaev interactions, a …

Spin-orbit coupled honeycomb magnets with the Kitaev interaction have received a lot of
attention due to their potential of hosting exotic quantum states including quantum spin …

As a candidate Kitaev material, Na 2 Co 2 TeO 6 exhibits intriguing magnetism on a
honeycomb lattice that is believed to be C 3 symmetric. Here we report a neutron diffraction …