Magnetic frustration arises when competing spin interactions and lattice geometry prevent conventional long-range order, leading to a highly degenerate manifold of ground states. In triangular, kagome ...

In a paper published in Nature Materials, Wilson's lab group has reported on an innovative way to use a phenomenon referred to as frustration of long-range order in a material system to engineer ...

A 3D quantum spin liquid has been discovered in the vicinity of a member of the langbeinite family. The material's specific crystalline structure and the resulting magnetic interactions induce an ...

Florida State University researchers have created a new crystalline material with unusual magnetic patterns that could be used for breakthroughs in data storage and quantum technologies. Subscribe to ...

A study has found a rare form of one-dimensional quantum magnetism in a metallic compound, offering evidence into a phase space that has remained, until now, largely theoretical. The study comes at a ...

“It’s a classic Columbia story—multiple groups in physics and chemistry came together to work on this new material, and we found exciting new results about how electrons move,” said Aravind ...

A researcher in the lab of Stephen Wilson, whose group studies how magnetic interactions can produce unusual states of matter relevant to quantum research. Research in the lab of UC Santa Barbara ...

A new study shows how frustrated magnetic interactions in a triangular lattice create unconventional, fluctuating states for quantum technologies. (Nanowerk News) Research in the lab of UC Santa ...