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Phononic Structure of Kitaev Quantum Spin Liquid Candidate Material alpha-RuCl3 part 1: experiment

ORAL

Abstract

Understanding phonons in alpha-RuCl3 is important to analyze the controversial observation of the half-integer thermal quantum Hall effect. We investigate the phononic structure of alpha-RuCl3 via Inelastic Neutron Scattering experiments and Density Functional Theory.

Presenters

  • Kiranmayi Dixit

    Purdue University

Authors

  • Sai Mu

    Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, University of California, Santa Barbara, UC Santa Barbara

  • Kiranmayi Dixit

    Purdue University

  • Yongqiang Cheng

    Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Arnab Banerjee

    Purdue University

  • Tom Berlijn

    Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Lab, Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory