The realization of exotic state of matter is interesting not only from a fundamental physics point of view but also holds immense promise for potential applications in robust quantum computing technology. In the frustrated antiferromagnet Li4CuTeO6, a dynamic and correlated disorder-induced spin-liquid ground state is evidenced experimentally for the first time. Here, neutron diffraction has proven to be essential to probe the disorder at the origin of this original magnetic state.
Publication: Signature of a randomness-driven spin-liquid state in a frustrated magnet, J. Khatua et al., Communications Physics 5 99 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-022-00879-2