Spin–Orbit-Entangled Electronic Phases in 4d and 5d Transition-Metal Compounds

T Takayama, J Chaloupka, A Smerald… - Journal of the Physical …, 2021 - journals.jps.jp
Complex oxides with 4 d and 5 d transition-metal ions recently emerged as a new paradigm
in correlated electron physics, due to the interplay between spin–orbit coupling and electron …

[HTML][HTML] Kitaev materials

S Trebst, C Hickey - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

Valence Bonds in Random Quantum Magnets: Theory and Application to

I Kimchi, A Nahum, T Senthil - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
We analyze the effect of quenched disorder on spin-1/2 quantum magnets in which
magnetic frustration promotes the formation of local singlets. Our results include a theory for …

Detection of multipolar orders in the spin-orbit-coupled Mott insulator

D Hirai, H Sagayama, S Gao, H Ohsumi, G Chen… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
Synchrotron x-ray-diffraction measurements on single crystals of the double perovskite B a 2
MgRe O 6 with 5 d 1 electronic configurations reveal the successive phase transitions from a …

Magnetism and local symmetry breaking in a Mott insulator with strong spin orbit interactions

L Lu, M Song, W Liu, AP Reyes, P Kuhns… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Study of the combined effects of strong electronic correlations with spin-orbit coupling (SOC)
represents a central issue in quantum materials research. Predicting emergent properties …

Emergent Symmetry in and Crystalline Spin-Orbital Liquids

MG Yamada, M Oshikawa, G Jackeli - Physical Review Letters, 2018 - APS
While the enhancement of spin-space symmetry from the usual SU (2) to SU (N) is promising
for finding nontrivial quantum spin liquids, its realization in magnetic materials remains …

Ordering of hidden multipoles in spin-orbit entangled Ta chlorides

H Ishikawa, T Takayama, RK Kremer, J Nuss… - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Spin-orbit coupling of as large as a half eV for electrons in 5 d orbitals often gives rise to the
formation of spin-orbital entangled objects, with the effective total angular momentum J eff …

Quantum liquids of the Kitaev honeycomb and related Kugel-Khomskii models

WMH Natori, HK **, J Knolle - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The S= 3 2 Kitaev honeycomb model (KHM) is unique among the spin-S Kitaev models due
to a massive ground-state quasidegeneracy that hampered previous numerical and …

Octupolar versus Néel Order in Cubic Double Perovskites

DD Maharaj, G Sala, MB Stone, E Kermarrec, C Ritter… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We report time-of-flight neutron spectroscopy and neutron and x-ray diffraction studies of the
5 d 2 double perovskite magnets, Ba 2 M OsO 6 (M= Zn, Mg, Ca). These materials host …

Fractionalized fermionic quantum criticality in spin-orbital Mott insulators

UFP Seifert, XY Dong, S Chulliparambil, M Vojta… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We study transitions between topological phases featuring emergent fractionalized
excitations in two-dimensional models for Mott insulators with spin and orbital degrees of …