Pressure lowers the symmetry of the Nb3 trimer in Nb3Cl8, widens the bands, and shrinks the cluster Mott gap from 1.0 eV to 0.58 eV in bulk, without destroying the insulating state.
Spin Liquid State in an Organic Mott Insulator with Triangular Lattice
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$^{1}$H NMR and static susceptibility measurements have been performed in an organic Mott insulator with nearly isotropic triangular lattice, $\kappa$-(BEDT-TTF)$_{2}$Cu$_{2}$(CN)$_{3}$, which is a model system of frustrated quantum spins. The static susceptibility is described by the spin $S$ = 1/2 antiferromagnetic triangular-lattice Heisenberg model with the exchange constant $J$ $\sim$ 250 K. Regardless of the large magnetic interactions, the $^{1}$H NMR spectra show no indication of long-range magnetic ordering down to 32 mK, which is four-orders of magnitude smaller than $J$. These results suggest that a quantum spin liquid state is realized in the close proximity of the superconducting state appearing under pressure.
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Resilient cluster Mott states in layered Nb$_3$Cl$_8$ against pressure-induced symmetry breaking
Pressure lowers the symmetry of the Nb3 trimer in Nb3Cl8, widens the bands, and shrinks the cluster Mott gap from 1.0 eV to 0.58 eV in bulk, without destroying the insulating state.