Ordinary salt can synthesize new spin liquid materials

The Moscow State University and the National Research University of Technology recently synthesized a special new type of magnetic substance, a spin liquid material, which does not freeze the spin of a single atom even when it is close to absolute zero

The concept of spin-liquid appeared in 1988 and is closely related to the mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity, but scientists have only recently begun to search for this substance

The researchers synthesized a sodium chloride-phosphorus oxycopper bismuth sodium crystal with a square kagome crystal lattice, which does not form a magnetic sequence when cooled to -271°C

Alexander Vasilyev, one of the authors of the research paper and the head of the Functional Quantum Materials Laboratory of Moscow State Research University of Technology, said that the synthesized substance is composed of sodium, copper, bismuth, phosphorus, oxygen and chlorine atoms in its crystal structure.

He explained that the relationship between the various layers described is usually interpreted as a "guest-host" model