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Rabindranath Bag; Matthew Ennis; Chunxiao Liu; Sachith E. Dissanayake; Zhenzhong Shi; Jue Liu; Leon Balents; Sara Haravifard

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.104.L220403

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Realization of quantum dipoles in triangular lattice crystal ${Ba}_{3} Yb {(B O_{3})}_{3}$

Rabindranath Bag ¹, Matthew Ennis ^1,*, Chunxiao Liu ^2,*, Sachith E. Dissanayake¹, Zhenzhong Shi¹, Jue Liu³, Leon Balents ⁴, and Sara Haravifard ^1,5,†

¹Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
²Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
³Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830, USA
⁴Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
⁵Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA

^*These authors contributed equally to this work.
^†Email address: sara.haravifard@duke.edu

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Phys. Rev. B 104, L220403 – Published 2 December, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.104.L220403

Abstract

We investigate the thermodynamic properties of the ytterbium-based triangular lattice compound ${Ba}_{3} Yb {(B O_{3})}_{3}$ . The results demonstrate the absence of any long-range ordering down to 56 mK. Analysis of the magnetization, susceptibility, and specific heat measurements suggests that ${Ba}_{3} Yb {(B O_{3})}_{3}$ may realize an $S = \frac{1}{2}$ quantum dipole lattice, in which the dominant interaction is the long-range dipole-dipole coupling on the geometrically frustrated triangular lattice, and exchange interactions are subdominant or negligible.

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