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Gapless spinon excitations emerging from a multipolar transverse field in the triangular-lattice Ising antiferromagnet NaTmSe2

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Pith's one-line read NaTmSe2 realizes the transverse-field Ising model with a multipolar transverse field, yielding a spin-disordered ground state and gapless spinon excitations.

desk verdict Strong experimental package for NaTmSe2, but the effective-model exchange conversion is internally inconsistent—fix the factor before trusting the spinon claim. read the letter →

arxiv 2505.09884 v1 pith:SZHMWPGB submitted 2025-05-15 cond-mat.str-el cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Zheng Zhang , Jinlong Jiao , Weizhen Zhuo , Mingtai Xie , D.T.Adroja , Toni Shiroka , Guochu Deng , Anmin Zhang
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Feng Jin Jianting Ji Jie Ma Qingming Zhang
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The reading

NaTmSe2, a layered rare-earth chalcogenide with Tm3+ ions on a triangular lattice, is presented as a clean realization of the transverse-field Ising model, with exchange couplings $J_1 \approx 0.198$ meV and $J_2 \approx 0.026$ meV and a transverse field $\Delta = 1.34$ meV set by the crystal-electric-field gap. Because $\Delta$ exceeds $J_1$, the model sits in a regime where the dipolar Ising component should be quantum-disordered while the multipolar component is polarized. Combining neutron scattering, muon spin relaxation, specific heat, and exact-diagonalization/DMRG calculations, the paper argues that NaTmSe2 shows no static magnetic order down to 50 mK and hosts continuous, gapless spinon excitations below about 0.5 meV. If correct, NaTmSe2 becomes a triangular-lattice Ising material that realizes a quantum spin liquid through a multipolar transverse field rather than an applied magnetic field, and a single magnet that carries two different magnetic states in separate dipolar and multipolar channels.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing object is the effective spin-1/2 transverse-field Ising model on the triangular lattice, $\hat H = J_1 \sum_{\langle ij\rangle} S_i^z S_j^z + J_2 \sum_{\langle\langle ik\rangle\rangle} S_i^z S_k^z - \Delta \sum_i S_i^y$, obtained by projecting the full $J=6$ crystal-field Hamiltonian onto the non-Kramers ground doublet of Tm$^{3+}$. The transverse field $\Delta = 1.34$ meV acts on the multipolar component $S^y$, and its non-commutation with the dipolar Ising term $S^z$ is what generates the quantum fluctuations that disorder the dipoles. The mapping between the two Hamiltonians uses a fixed rescaling factor $J(J+1)/S(S+1) = 56$ to convert the fitted exchange constants $\Theta_1, \Theta_2$ into $J_1, J_2$; the effective $g$-factor along $c$, $g_{\rm eff} \approx 10.55$, fixes the dipolar coupling strength. The argument is carried by the combination of a crystal-electric-field refinement, the effective spin model, and numerical spectroscopies (exact diagonalization for the dynamic structure factor, DMRG for gap scaling) that together tie the measured continuum and $T^2$ specific heat to fractionalized spinon excitations.

What would settle it

A high-resolution inelastic neutron scattering measurement at 20 mK with energy resolution better than 0.05 meV could settle the claim: if the scattering intensity vanishes below a finite energy rather than rising continuously from zero, the gapless-spinon interpretation fails.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

According to the paper, NaTmSe2 realizes the $J_1$-$J_2$ transverse-field Ising model with $J_1 \approx 0.198$ meV, $J_2 \approx 0.026$ meV, and $\Delta = 1.34$ meV, placing it in the $\Delta > J_1$ regime. The transverse field is not a magnetic field acting on dipoles; it is the energy gap between the two lowest crystal-electric-field states of Tm$^{3+}$, and it enters the effective Hamiltonian as a multipolar operator $S^y$. The non-commutativity between $S^z$ and $S^y$ generates quantum fluctuations that destroy dipolar Ising order, leaving a state that is multipolar-polarized but dipolar-disordered. The experimental evidence is that neutron diffraction finds no magnetic Bragg peaks at 50 mK, zero-field muon relaxation shows a homogeneous dynamic environment with a plateau in relaxation rate, inelastic neutron scattering reveals a continuum below 0.5 meV, and the zero-field specific heat follows $C_p \sim T^2$ with exponent $\alpha \approx 1.99$. DMRG gap extrapolation to the thermodynamic limit gives zero gap, and both exact diagonalization and DMRG capture the observed continuum and the field-induced gap. The authors conclude that the low-energy excitations are gapless spinons emerging from the dipolar-disordered ground state and mediated by the multipolar transverse field.

Load-bearing premise

The entire conclusion depends on the claim that the real magnetic interactions in NaTmSe2 are equivalent to a simpler model with one fixed conversion factor (56) between the measured exchange constants and the model's couplings; the paper states this equivalence without deriving it from the measured atomic wave functions, and a direct calculation from those wave functions gives a different factor, which would put the system closer to magnetic ordering.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • NaTmSe2 becomes a concrete triangular-lattice material in which the transverse-field Ising model is realized with independently determined parameters, allowing quantitative tests of spin-liquid theories on frustrated Ising lattices.
  • The coexistence of a polarized multipolar channel and a disordered dipolar channel shows that a single magnet can carry two qualitatively different magnetic states in different operator channels, a feature that could guide searches in other rare-earth chalcogenides.
  • Because the transverse field is intrinsic (a crystal-electric-field gap) rather than an applied magnetic field, the spin-disordered regime persists to zero applied field; applying a $c$-axis field instead suppresses spinon excitations and opens a gap, as seen in the specific-heat exponent rising with field.
  • The reported gapless continuum and $T^2$ specific heat provide clear experimental signatures that can be looked for in sister compounds such as KTmSe$_2$ or in substituted variants.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the effective $J_1$ were as large as about 0.29 meV (using the actual crystal-electric-field matrix element rather than the fixed factor 56), the ratio $\Delta/J_1$ would drop from about 6.8 to about 4.6; the paper's qualitative conclusions would survive, but the margin for gaplessness would be narrower than claimed.
  • The tolerance-factor flexibility of the chalcogenide family suggests a testable extension: substituting the selenium ligand or the sodium site should tune $\Delta/J_1$ continuously, and the specific-heat exponent and inelastic neutron continuum could be mapped across a predicted gapless-to-gapped transition.
  • The multipolar transverse field could be probed more directly by resonant x-ray scattering or nonlinear magnetic susceptibility, which are sensitive to multipolar fluctuations that conventional neutron diffraction does not see; such an experiment would independently test the channel separation.
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Summary. This manuscript reports a combined experimental and theoretical study of the triangular-lattice magnet NaTmSe2, arguing that it realizes a J1-J2 transverse-field Ising model (TFIM) with dominant transverse field Δ=1.34 meV, nearest-neighbor Ising coupling J1≈0.198 meV, and next-nearest-neighbor coupling J2≈0.026 meV. The evidence includes CEF level determination by inelastic neutron scattering, magnetization and specific heat, absence of magnetic Bragg peaks at 50 mK, absence of muon precession at 0.28 K, a low-energy INS continuum with a spectral cutoff, specific heat C_p ~ T^α with α≈2, and ED/DMRG calculations that extrapolate to a gapless spectrum. On this basis the authors conclude that NaTmSe2 hosts a dipolar spin-disordered state with gapless spinon excitations mediated by a multipolar transverse field.

Significance. If the central claim holds, NaTmSe2 is a notable realization of a frustrated transverse-field Ising magnet on a clean triangular lattice, complementing TmMgGaO4 and extending the family of rare-earth multipolar magnets. The experimental package is internally consistent: no order down to millikelvin temperatures, a gapless continuum, and power-law specific heat together form a coherent case for a quantum-disordered ground state, and the material's disorder-free structure is a genuine advantage. The manuscript would be strengthened by making the quantitative connection between the J=6 CEF model and the effective spin-1/2 model rigorous; as written, this step contains an unresolved conversion-factor inconsistency that affects the quoted exchange parameters and the numerical checks.

major comments (3)
  1. [J1-J2 TFIM, Eq. (2)-(3)] The conversion factor J(J+1)/S(S+1)=56 used to obtain J1=0.198 meV and J2=0.026 meV is not the factor that follows from the authors' own CEF wave functions. From Eq. (2), ⟨ψ0|Ĵz|ψ1⟩ ≈ -4.53. Projecting Ĵz onto the CEF doublet gives Ĵz = -2⟨ψ0|Ĵz|ψ1⟩ S^z (up to a unitary choice of pseudo-spin basis), so the exchange term Θ1 Σ Ĵz_i Ĵz_j becomes J1 Σ S^z_i S^z_j with J1 = 4⟨ψ0|Ĵz|ψ1⟩² Θ1 ≈ 82.1 Θ1 ≈ 0.291 meV, and similarly J2 ≈ 0.038 meV. The factor 56, which compares ⟨J²⟩=J(J+1) with ⟨S²⟩=3/4, is the appropriate scale for a different quantity (e.g., a Curie-Weiss or total-moment normalization), not for the transition matrix element that controls the CEF-excitation dispersion fitted in Fig. 2(h). With the corrected matrix element, Δ/J1 is about 4.6 rather than 6.8; although the qualitative Δ>J1 regime survives, the quoted quantitative parameters, the claimed equivalence in Fig. 2(i), and the ED/DMRG results in Fig. 4(d)-(i) inherit the inconsistency unless the numerical work is repeated with the correctly projected couplings. The authors should present the explicit projection of Eq. (1) onto the doublet and reconcile all reported values.
  2. [J1-J2 TFIM and Fig. 2(h)-(i)] The confirmation of model equivalence is partly circular. Θ1 and Θ2 are obtained by fitting the J=6 model to the dispersion of the first CEF excitation (Fig. 2(h)), and the effective spin-1/2 model with converted J1 and J2 is then said to 'confirm the equivalence of the two models' by reproducing the same spectrum (Fig. 2(i)). This is a consistency check on the fitting procedure, not an independent validation of the reduction. The equivalence should be established by a first-principles projection of the J=6 Hamiltonian onto the CEF doublet, which would also resolve the conversion-factor problem above, and, ideally, by predicting a quantity not used in the fit (for example the field dependence of the excitation dispersion or of the specific heat).
  3. [Spin excitations, Fig. 4(h)] The numerical support for gaplessness should be documented more thoroughly. The extrapolation in Fig. 4(h) uses Ly=6 cylinders and a linear fit in 1/Lx; for a gapped two-dimensional system, cylindrical finite-size gaps can scale to zero in a linear-in-1/Lx fit over a short range, so the extrapolation alone is not conclusive. Please report the raw gap values and fit range, show results for at least one additional Ly value, and compare the gap scaling against the expected exponential behavior of a gapped phase. This is especially important because the calculation uses the disputed J1/J2 values from the conversion discussed above.
minor comments (3)
  1. [CEF excitations and Fig. 2 caption] The fourth CEF excitation energy is quoted as 34.34 meV in the text but as 35.34 meV in the Fig. 2 caption; please correct the inconsistency.
  2. [Introduction and Spin ground state] The compound name appears as NaTa7O19 in the introduction and as PrZnAl11O9 in the spin ground-state section; both appear to be typographical errors for the neodymium heptatantalate and PrZnAl11O19 mentioned in the cited references.
  3. [Spin excitations, Fig. 4(i)] The comparison between the field dependence of the specific-heat exponent α and the DMRG gap is qualitative; please state explicitly whether the linear increase of the gap is expected to produce a linear increase of α near the gapless point, or whether the agreement is only in monotonic behavior.

Circularity Check

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One equivalence check reduces to the fitted input, but the central gapless-spinon evidence is independent.

  1. fitted input called prediction [Section 'J1-J2 TFIM', after Eq. (3); Figs. 2(h)-(i)]
    "At low-energies, the TFIM is equivalent to the spin Hamiltonian described by Eq. 1. The parametersΘ1 andΘ2 convert toJ1 andJ2 via a factor J(J+1) S(S+1) = 56 [43, 47], yieldingJ1 = Θ1× 56≃ 0.198 meV (∼ 2.3 K) andJ2 =Θ2× 56≃ 0.026 meV (∼ 0.3 K). Using the TFIM, we successfully reproduce the INS spectrum near 1.34 meV, as shown in Fig. 2(i), confirming the equivalence of the two models at low energies."

    The Θ parameters were themselves obtained by fitting the dispersion of the first CEF excitation: 'Simulations yield optimal parameters Θ1 = 0.00354(2) meV andΘ2 = 0.00046(1) meV, successfully reproducing the INS spectrum (Fig. 2(h)).' Because J1 and J2 are defined as 56×Θ1 and 56×Θ2, the TFIM spectrum in Fig. 2(i) is not an independent prediction of Eq. (3); it is the same fit rescaled by a constant. Calling this agreement a 'confirmation of the equivalence of the two models' therefore reduces by construction to the input fit rather than providing independent evidence for the TFIM realization.

full rationale

The derivation chain has one genuinely redundant step: the effective spin-1/2 TFIM parameters J1 and J2 are obtained by rescaling the fitted J=6 exchange constants Θ1 and Θ2 by the fixed factor 56, and the same INS spectrum that fixed Θ is then shown to be 'reproduced' by the TFIM. This agreement is a relabeling of the fit, not a test of the effective model, so the paper's phrasing 'confirming the equivalence' overstates what Fig. 2(i) establishes. However, the central claim of gapless spinon excitations does not rest on this equivalence check alone. It is supported by independent measurements: no magnetic Bragg peaks down to 50 mK, µSR relaxation without oscillations, a low-energy INS continuum with a cutoff above the elastic background, and a nearly T^2 magnetic specific heat. The DMRG/ED calculations explore the model derived from the fit and therefore inherit the fitted parameters, but they are not refitting the same observable that they predict. There is also a separate, non-circular correctness concern: the paper's own CEF wave functions in Eq. (2) imply ⟨ψ0|Ĵz|ψ1⟩ ≈ 4.53, so the doublet-projection conversion factor is (2⟨ψ0|Ĵz|ψ1⟩)^2 ≈ 82 rather than 56, which would give J1 ≈ 0.29 meV and reduce Δ/J1 from about 6.8 to 4.6. This affects the quantitative DMRG/ED results and the proximity to ordering boundaries, but it is an internal inconsistency rather than a circular reduction. Overall, because one claimed confirmation reduces by construction while the main experimental conclusions are independent, a moderate partial-circularity score is appropriate.

Assumptions & free parameters 3 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claims rest on three layers of fitted input: the CEF parameters (fitted to four INS excitations), the exchange couplings Θ1 and Θ2 (fitted to the dispersion of the lowest CEF excitation), and the conversion of those couplings into the effective spin-1/2 model via the factor 56. The transverse field Δ = 1.34 meV is measured rather than fitted. The DMRG and ED calculations introduce no additional free parameters but assume the fitted values are correct. The interpretive step from gapless continuum to 'spinon' is an additional postulate, not a derived result. No entities are invented beyond the standard spinon construct imported from the QSL literature, which does carry a falsifiable handle (the continuum and the T^2 heat capacity).

free parameters (3)
  • Θ1 (nearest-neighbor Ising exchange, J = 6 model) = 0.00354(2) meV
    Fitted to reproduce the slight dispersion of the lowest CEF excitation (1.34 meV) in the INS spectra (Fig. 2(h)); inherited as J1 = Θ1 × 56 ≈ 0.198 meV in the effective model.
  • Θ2 (next-nearest-neighbor Ising exchange, J = 6 model) = 0.00046(1) meV
    Fitted together with Θ1 to the dispersion of the first CEF excitation; becomes J2 = Θ2 × 56 ≈ 0.026 meV in Eq. 3.
  • CEF parameters (Stevens coefficients, D3d symmetry) = In Supplementary Materials [43]
    Fitted to the four INS excitation energies (1.34, 8.65, 24.50, 34.34 meV); they fix the wave functions of Eq. 2, the effective g-factor of 10.55, and hence the entire effective model.
assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption The low-energy magnetic physics of Tm3+ is contained in the J = 6 ground multiplet 3H6; the 3H4 term about 700 meV higher is neglected.
    Entered at the start of the CEF section; standard for Tm3+ at low temperature and not load-bearing for the claims.
  • domain assumption The two lowest CEF states form an isolated quasi-doublet (second level at 8.65 meV), so the low-energy Hamiltonian can be truncated to two states.
    Justifies Eq. 3; the paper cites the 8.65 meV separation but does not test the influence of higher CEF levels on the low-energy spectrum.
  • domain assumption The effective spin-1/2 transverse-field Ising model of Eq. 3 is equivalent to the J = 6 Hamiltonian of Eq. 1 at low energies, with couplings converted by J(J+1)/S(S+1) = 56.
    Asserted in the paragraph after Eq. 3. The CEF wave functions of Eq. 2 give ⟨ψ0|Ĵz|ψ1⟩ ≈ 4.53, implying a conversion factor near 82 and J1 ≈ 0.29 meV; the paper does not reconcile this. The weakest load-bearing modeling premise.
  • domain assumption DMRG on Ly = 6 cylinders with linear extrapolation in 1/Lx gives the thermodynamic-limit gap of the fitted model.
    Fig. 4(h); the linear extrapolation assumes no level crossing or crossover at larger system sizes; convergence details are deferred to the Supplementary Materials.
  • domain assumption The gapless continuum and T^2 specific heat are interpreted as fractionalized spinon excitations rather than overdamped single-particle modes or other backgrounds.
    Central interpretation in the Spin excitations section; consistent with the evidence package used for other QSL candidates (refs. 40, 42, 46), but no fractionalization fingerprint is presented.

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The triangular-lattice quantum Ising antiferromagnet is a promising platform for realizing Anderson's quantum spin liquid, though finding suitable materials to realize it remains a challenge. Here, we present a comprehensive study of NaTmSe2 using magnetization, specific heat, neutron scattering, and muon spin relaxation, combined with theoretical calculations. We demonstrate that NaTmSe2 realizes the transverse field Ising model and quantitatively determine its exchange parameters. Our results reveal a multipolar spin-polarized state coexisting with a dipolar spin-disordered state. These states feature gapless spinon excitations mediated by the multipolar moments. The study shows how multiple types of magnetism can emerge in distinct magnetic channels (dipolar and multipolar) within a single magnet, advancing our understanding of spin-frustrated Ising physics and opening pathways for different quantum computing applications.

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