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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 109, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.016402
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- David and Lucile Packard Fundation
- NSF [DMR-1001240]
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1001240] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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A recently discovered material, 6H-B-Ba3NiSb2O9 was found to display unusual low-temperature phenomenology, interpreted as a quantum spin liquid with spin S 1 on a triangular lattice. We study a spin S 1 exchange model on an AB stacked triangular lattice near its quantum paramagnet-to-spiral transition, driven by easy-plane single-ion anisotropy. We demonstrate that the frustrated inter-and intralayer exchanges induce contour lines of low-energy excitations that lead to a broad crossover regime of linear-temperature dependence of the specific heat. Based on this and various other predictions, we argue that the observed phenomenology can be understood in terms of a conventional picture of a proximity to this frustrated critical point.
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