From Abundant Hydrocarbons to Rare Spin Liquids 3 (IMAGE)

Tohoku University

From Abundant Hydrocarbons to Rare Spin Liquids 3

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Fig. 3 Diagrammatic representation of the structure of the ionic hydrocarbon discovered in this work as host of a quantum spin liquid. The left panel shows the molecular ions, which arrange in triangular vertex-sharing chains. The right panel depicts the co-existing spiral magnetic tubes. The two structural motifs interlink to give a complex packing architecture, as shown in projection in the middle panel. Each molecular ion has one spin (shown as grey arrow). The spins perpetually fluctuate down to low temperatures. The figure shows one of an infinite number of entangled spin arrangements.

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Kosmas Prassides

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