Spiral spin liquid behavior and persistent reciprocal kagome structure in frustrated van der Waals magnets and beyond

Title Chiral Spin Liquid in a Frustrated Anisotropic Kagome

Magnetic behavior and spin-lattice coupling in cleavable van der Waals layered CrCl3 crystals

Michael A. McGuire,1,* Genevieve Clark,2 Santosh KC,1 W. Michael Chance,1,3 Gerald E. Jellison, Jr.,1 Valentino R. Cooper,1 Xiaodong Xu,2,4 and Brian C. Sales1 1Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA 2Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA 3Department of Material...

van der Waals Interactions in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals

Microscopic calculations of the pitch of cholesteric liquid crystals are based on a few types of interactions between molecules: (1) short-range repulsive, (2) direct Coulomb, and (3) long-range van der Waals interactions. Recently, it was shown that first two types cannot be treated in the frame of mean-field approximation. Here we show that, contrary to common belief, an accurate evaluation o...

Phase coexistence in polydisperse liquid mixtures: Beyond the van der Waals approximation

The solution of the mean spherical approximation for a polydisperse fluid mixture of particles interacting via a set of ~factorizable! hard-sphere Yukawa potentials allows one to represent those thermodynamic quantities that are relevant to determine phase coexistence ~i.e., pressure and chemical potential! by a limited number of ~generalized! moments. Being thus a member of ‘‘truncatable free ...

Statistical mechanics of simple fluids: beyond van der Waals

Dense fluids, defined to include both dense gases and liquids, have the reputation of being especially difficult to deal with theoretically. This reputation is not undeserved. Unlike dilute gases and crystalline solids, which can be thought of as deviants from well understood ideal states, the ideal gas and the ideal harmonic crystal, the dense fluid lies far from any recognizable landmark. Thi...