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It is known that α-RuCl3 has been studied extensively because of its proximity to the Kitaev quantum-spin-liquid(QSL) phase and the possibility of approaching it by tuning the competing interactions.Here we present the first polarized inelastic neutron sc
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School of Physical Science and Technology,and ShanghaiTech Laboratory for Topological Physics,Shangh
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It is known that α-RuCl3 has been studied extensively because of its proximity to the Kitaev quantum-spin-liquid(QSL) phase and the possibility of approaching it by tuning the competing interactions.Here we present the first polarized inelastic neutron scattering study on α-RuCl3 single crystals to explore the scattering continuum around the Γ point at the Brillouin zone center,which was hypothesized to be resulting from the Kitaev QSL state but without concrete evidence.With polarization analyses,we find that,while the spin-wave excitations around the M point vanish above the transition temperature TN,the pure magnetic continuous excitations around the Γpoint are robust against temperature.Furthermore,by calculating the dynamical spin-spin correlation function using the cluster perturbation theory,we derive magnetic dispersion spectra based on the K-Γ model,which involves with a ferromagnetic Kitaev interaction of-7.2 meV and an off-diagonal interaction of 5.6 meV.We find this model can reproduce not only the spin-wave excitation spectra around the M point,but also the non-spin-wave continuous magnetic excitations around the Γ point.These results provide evidence for the existence of fractional excitations around the Γ point originating from the Kitaev QSL state,and further support the validity of the K-Γ model as the effective minimal spin model to describe α-RuCl3.
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