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NATURE CHEMISTRY
Volume 9, Issue 7, Pages 635-643Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NCHEM.2764
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- World Premier International (WPI) Research Center Initiative for Atoms, Molecules and Materials, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan
- Japan Science and Technology Agency under the ERATOIsobe Degenerate p-Integration Project
- Mitsubishi Foundation
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [15H05882]
- European Union/JST SICORP-LEMSUPER FP7-NMP-EU-Japan project [NMP3-SL-2011-283214]
- UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/K027255, EP/K027212]
- Slovenian Research Agency [N1-0052]
- Royal Society
- EPSRC [EP/K027255/2, EP/K027212/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/K027212/1, EP/K027255/2] Funding Source: researchfish
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [15K21719, 15K05374, 26105001, 26105011, 16H01063] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Molecular solids with cooperative electronic properties based purely on pi electrons from carbon atoms offer a fertile ground in the search for exotic states of matter, including unconventional superconductivity and quantum magnetism. The field was ignited by reports of high-temperature superconductivity in materials obtained by the reaction of alkali metals with polyaromatic hydrocarbons, such as phenanthrene and picene, but the composition and structure of any compound in this family remained unknown. Here we isolate the binary caesium salts of phenanthrene, Cs(C14H10) and Cs-2(C14H10), to show that they are multiorbital strongly correlated Mott insulators. Whereas Cs-2(C14H10) is diamagnetic because of orbital polarization, Cs(C14H10) is a Heisenberg antiferromagnet with a gapped spin-liquid state that emerges from the coupled highly frustrated.-chain magnetic topology of the alternating-exchange spiral tubes of S= 1/2 (C14H10)(center dot-) radical anions. The absence of long-range magnetic order down to 1.8 K (T/J approximate to 0.02; J is the dominant exchange constant) renders the compound an excellent candidate for a spin-1/2 quantum-spin liquid (QSL) that arises purely from carbon pi electrons.
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