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To investigate how atomic thinning and structural symmetry-breaking alter magnetic exchange coupling and anisotropy in monolayer α-RuCl3.

October 11, 2022Open Access

Magnetic anisotropy reversal driven by structural symmetry-breaking in monolayer α-RuCl3

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BYBowen YangHarvard University Press YGYin Min GohMassachusetts Institute of Technology SSSuk Hyun SungHarvard University

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Spectroscopic and structural analysis reveals a magnetic anisotropy reversal to easy-axis in monolayer α-RuCl3, indicating a viable path toward out-of-plane Kitaev quantum spin liquid phases.

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To investigate how atomic thinning and structural symmetry-breaking alter magnetic exchange coupling and anisotropy in monolayer α-RuCl3.
Measured layer-dependent magnons and magnetic anisotropy across atomically thin α-RuCl3 using tunneling spectroscopy and magnetotransport.
Identified lattice symmetry breaking via electron diffraction and calculated exchange coupling parameters using ab initio methods.
Structural distortions in monolayer α-RuCl3 reverse the mathematical sign of the average off-diagonal magnetic exchange coupling.
The change in exchange coupling completely flips the material's magnetic anisotropy from the bulk easy-plane orientation to a monolayer easy-axis orientation.
This anisotropy reversal makes predicted out-of-plane field-induced Kitaev quantum spin liquid states experimentally accessible.

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Yang et al. (2022) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a6f810cfebe604dd70869a5 https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2210.05733

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Spectroscopic and structural analysis reveals a magnetic anisotropy reversal to easy-axis in monolayer α-RuCl3, indicating a viable path toward out-of-plane Kitaev quantum spin liquid phases.

Magnetic anisotropy reversal driven by structural symmetry-breaking in monolayer α-RuCl3

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Magnetic anisotropy reversal driven by structural symmetry-breaking in monolayer α-RuCl3

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