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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Klich I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3988808 | biostudies-other | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Nature communications 20140401
When spins are arranged in a lattice of triangular motif, the phenomenon of frustration leads to numerous energetically equivalent ground states, and results in exotic states such as spin liquid and spin ice. Here we report an alternative situation: a system, classically a liquid, freezes in the clean limit into a glassy state induced by quantum fluctuations. We call such glassy state a spin jam. The case in point is a frustrated magnet, where spins are arranged in a triangular network of bipyra ...[more]