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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
卷 101, 期 20, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.101.201101
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- Science, Technology and Innovation Commission of Shenzhen Municipality [JCYJ20170412152334605]
- Initiative Funds for Shenzhen High Class University [G02206301]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11774143]
- program for Guangdong Introducing Innovative and Entrepreneurial Teams [2017ZT07C062]
Recently H3LiIr2O6 has been reported as a spin-orbital entangled quantum spin liquid (QSL) [K. Kitagawa et al., Nature (London) 554, 341 (2018)], albeit its connection to Kitaev QSL has not been yet identified. To unveil the related Kitaev physics, we perform Raman spectroscopy studies on single-crystalline H3LiIr2O6 samples. We implement a soft chemical replacement of Li+ with H+ from alpha-Li2IrO3 single crystals to synthesize the single crystal samples of the iridate second-generation H3LiIr2O6. The unusual phonon broadening in H3LiIr2O6 implies the random positions of the substituted H+. As well as the lattice dynamics, Raman spectroscopy can also be used to diagnose the QSL state since the magnetic Raman continuum arises from a process involving pairs of fractionalized Majorana fermionic excitation in a pure Kitaev model. We observe a broad dome-shaped magnetic continuum in H3LiIr2O6, in line with theoretical expectations for the two-spin process in the Kitaev QSL. The possible scenario of the structural disordered magnet for the magnetic Raman continuum is also discussed.
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