Department of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China.
Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA 02139
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Jul 3;114(27):6996-7000. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1706769114. Epub 2017 Jun 20.
1T-TaS is unique among transition metal dichalcogenides in that it is understood to be a correlation-driven insulator, where the unpaired electron in a 13-site cluster experiences enough correlation to form a Mott insulator. We argue, based on existing data, that this well-known material should be considered as a quantum spin liquid, either a fully gapped [Formula: see text] spin liquid or a Dirac spin liquid. We discuss the exotic states that emerge upon doping and propose further experimental probes.
1T-TaS 在过渡金属二卤族化合物中是独一无二的,因为它被认为是一种关联驱动的绝缘体,在 13 位点簇中的不成对电子经历足够的关联以形成莫特绝缘体。我们基于现有数据提出,这种众所周知的材料应该被视为量子自旋液体,要么是完全能隙的[Formula: see text]自旋液体,要么是狄拉克自旋液体。我们讨论了掺杂后出现的奇异态,并提出了进一步的实验探测方法。