Sunday 12 June 2011

Ultrathin Copper-Oxide Layers Behave Like Quantum Spin Liquid


ScienceDaily (June 11, 2011)
— Magnetic studies of ultrathin slabs of copper-oxide materials reveal that at very low temperatures, the thinnest, isolated layers lose their long-range magnetic order and instead behave like a "quantum spin liquid" -- a state of matter where the orientations of electron spins fluctuate wildly.

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