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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 124, Issue 20, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.206602
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- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2017YFA0302900, 2016YFA0300300, 2016YFA0300502, 2017YFA0303103]
- NSF of China [11427805, U1532267, 11604376, 11874401, 11674406, 11874080, 11421092, 11574359, 11674370, 11961160699]
- Strategic Priority Research Program (B) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB25000000, XDB07020000, XDB28000000]
- NSF [DMR-1710170]
- Simons Investigator Award
- Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [2019008]
- RFBR [18-0200183]
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We report heat capacity measurements of SrCu2(BO3)(2) under high pressure along with simulations of relevant quantum spin models and map out the (P, T) phase diagram of the material. We find a first-order quantum phase transition between the low-pressure quantum dimer paramagnet and a phase with signatures of a plaquette-singlet state below T = 2 K. At higher pressures, we observe a transition into a previously unknown antiferromagnetic state below 4 K. Our findings can be explained within the two-dimensional Shastry-Sutherland quantum spin model supplemented by weak interlayer couplings. The possibility to tune SrCu2(BO3)(2) between the plaquette-singlet and antiferromagnetic states opens opportunities for experimental tests of quantum field theories and lattice models involving fractionalized excitations, emergent symmetries, and gauge fluctuations.
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