Structure of the magnetic excitations in the spin-1/2 triangular-lattice Heisenberg antiferromagnet Ba3CoSb2O9

Two-dimensional frustrated magnets are heavily studied because theories predict that quantum effects may lead to the emergence of fractionalized excitations. Ito et al. use inelastic neutron scattering to show that the excitation spectrum of Ba3CoSb2O9 disagrees with current theoretical expectations...

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Main Authors: Saya Ito, Nobuyuki Kurita, Hidekazu Tanaka, Seiko Ohira-Kawamura, Kenji Nakajima, Shinichi Itoh, Keitaro Kuwahara, Kazuhisa Kakurai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00316-x