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Emergent bound states and impurity pairs in chemically doped Shastry-Sutherland system

Shi, Zhenzhong
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Steinhardt, William
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Graf, David
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June 4, 2019
Nature Communications

Impurities often play a defining role in the ground states of frustrated quantum magnets. Studies of their effects are crucial in understanding of the phase diagram in these materials. SrCu2(BO3)(2), an experimental realization of the Shastry-Sutherland (SS) lattice, provides a unique model system for such studies using both experimental and numerical approaches. Here we report effects of impurities on the crystals of bound states, and doping-induced emergent ground states in Mg-doped SrCu2(BO3)(2), which remain stable in high magnetic fields. Using four complementary magnetometry techniques and theoretical simulations, a rich impurity-induced phenomenology at high fields is discovered. The results demonstrate a rare example in which even a small doping concentration interacts strongly with both triplets and bound states of triplets, and thus plays a significant role in the magnetization process even at high magnetic fields. Our findings provide insights into the study of impurity effects in geometrically frustrated quantum magnets.

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DOI
10.1038/s41467-019-10410-x
Web of Science ID

WOS:000470082100004

Author(s)
Shi, Zhenzhong
Steinhardt, William
Graf, David
Corboz, Philippe  
Weickert, Franziska
Harrison, Neil
Jaime, Marcelo
Marjerrison, Casey
Dabkowska, Hanna A.
Mila, Frederic  
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Date Issued

2019-06-04

Publisher

Nature Research

Published in
Nature Communications
Volume

10

Article Number

2439

Subjects

Multidisciplinary Sciences

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Science & Technology - Other Topics

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dimer ground-state

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magnetization plateaus

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srcu2(bo3)(2)

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model

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glass

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