Piezomagnetoelectric effects in a candidate Kitaev magnet
Vilmos Kocsis, Sven Luther, Nicolás Pérez, Weiliang Yao, Hannes Kühne, Anja U B Wolter, Yuan Li, Bernd Büchner · 2026
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Description
Vilmos Kocsis and colleagues report a 2026 physics observation in a crystal proposed for a Kitaev quantum spin liquid, an exotic state where spins never settle into ordinary magnetic order. The material studied, a sodium cobalt tellurium oxide, mixes the prized Kitaev interaction with competing forces that usually obscure it. The team measured how the crystal responds electrically and mechanically under magnetic fields.
They directly observed a magnetoelectric effect, linking magnetism with electric charge patterns, alongside a strong elastic response that flagged phase changes sensitively. The effect seems to arise from bonds between metal and oxygen atoms, letting charge patterns form without magnetic order. Such coupling could allow electric fields to steer the material's exotic excitations.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Vilmos Kocsis, Sven Luther, Nicolás Pérez, Weiliang Yao, Hannes Kühne, Anja U B Wolter, Yuan Li, Bernd Büchner |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 30 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |