Spiral order in the honeycomb iridate Li2IrO3
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Johannes Reuther,1 Ronny Thomale,2 and Stephan Rachel3 1Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA 2Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany 3Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany (Received 30 April 2014; revised manuscript received 20 August 2014; published 12 September 2014)
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تاریخ انتشار 2014