Quantum liquid from strange frustration in the trimer magnet Ba4Ir3O10
Quantum liquid from strange frustration in the trimer magnet Ba4Ir3O10
Quantum spin systems such as magnetic insulators usually show classical magnetic order, but such classical states can give way to quantum liquids with exotic entanglement through two known mechanisms of frustration: geometric frustration in lattices with triangle motifs, and spin-orbit-coupling frustration in the exactly solvable quantum liquid of Kitaev's honeycomb …