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Field-Induced Instability of a Gapless Spin Liquid with a Spinon Fermi Surface (2017)
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Gomilšek, M., Klanjšek, M., Žitko, R., Pregelj, M., Bert, F., Mendels, P., Li, Y., Zhang, Q., & Zorko, A. (2017). Field-Induced Instability of a Gapless Spin Liquid with a Spinon Fermi Surface. Physical Review Letters, 119(13), Article 137205. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.119.137205

The ground state of the quantum kagome antiferromagnet Zn-brochantite, ZnCu3ðOHÞ6SO4, which is one of only a few known spin-liquid (SL) realizations in two or three dimensions, has been described as a gapless SL with a spinon Fermi surface. Employing... Read More about Field-Induced Instability of a Gapless Spin Liquid with a Spinon Fermi Surface.

Symmetry Reduction in the Quantum Kagome Antiferromagnet Herbertsmithite (2017)
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Zorko, A., Herak, M., Gomilšek, M., van Tol, J., Velázquez, M., Khuntia, P., …Mendels, P. (2017). Symmetry Reduction in the Quantum Kagome Antiferromagnet Herbertsmithite. Physical Review Letters, 118(1), Article 017202. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.118.017202

Employing complementary torque magnetometry and electron spin resonance on single crystals of herbertsmithite, the closest realization to date of a quantum kagome antiferromagnet featuring a spin-liquid ground state, we provide novel insight into dif... Read More about Symmetry Reduction in the Quantum Kagome Antiferromagnet Herbertsmithite.

Exchange anisotropy as mechanism for spin-stripe formation in frustrated spin chains (2016)
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Pregelj, M., Zaharko, O., Herak, M., Gomilšek, M., Zorko, A., Chapon, L., Bourdarot, F., Berger, H., & Arčon, D. (2016). Exchange anisotropy as mechanism for spin-stripe formation in frustrated spin chains. Physical review B, 94(8), Article 081114(R). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.94.081114

We investigate the spin-stripe mechanism responsible for the peculiar nanometer modulation of the incommensurate magnetic order that emerges between the vector-chiral and the spin-density-wave phase in the frustrated zigzag spin-1/2 chain compound β-... Read More about Exchange anisotropy as mechanism for spin-stripe formation in frustrated spin chains.

μSR insight into the impurity problem in quantum kagome antiferromagnets (2016)
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Gomilšek, M., Klanjšek, M., Pregelj, M., Luetkens, H., Li, Y., Zhang, Q., & Zorko, A. (2016). μSR insight into the impurity problem in quantum kagome antiferromagnets. Physical review B, 94(2), Article 024438. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.94.024438

Impurities, which are unavoidable in real materials, may play an important role in the magnetism of frustrated spin systems with a spin-liquid ground state. We address the impurity issue in quantum kagome antiferromagnets by investigating ZnCu3(OH)6S... Read More about μSR insight into the impurity problem in quantum kagome antiferromagnets.

Electron spin resonance insight into broadband absorption of the Cu3Bi(SeO3)2O2Br metamagnet (2016)
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Zorko, A., Gomilšek, M., Pregelj, M., Ozerov, M., Zvyagin, S., Ozarowski, A., …Zaharko, O. (2016). Electron spin resonance insight into broadband absorption of the Cu3Bi(SeO3)2O2Br metamagnet. AIP Advances, 6(5), Article 056210. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4943534

Metamagnets, which exhibit a transition from a low-magnetization to a high-magnetization state induced by the applied magnetic field, have recently been highlighted as promising materials for controllable broadband absorption. Here we show results of... Read More about Electron spin resonance insight into broadband absorption of the Cu3Bi(SeO3)2O2Br metamagnet.

Instabilities of spin-liquid states in a quantum kagome antiferromagnet (2016)
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Gomilšek, M., Klanjšek, M., Pregelj, M., Coomer, F., Luetkens, H., Zaharko, O., Fennell, T., Li, Y., Zhang, Q., & Zorko, A. (2016). Instabilities of spin-liquid states in a quantum kagome antiferromagnet. Physical review B, 93(6), Article 060405(R). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.93.060405

The emergent behavior of spin liquids that are born out of geometrical frustration makes them an intriguing state of matter. We show that in the quantum kagome antiferromagnet ZnCu3(OH)6SO4 several different correlated yet fluctuating states exist. B... Read More about Instabilities of spin-liquid states in a quantum kagome antiferromagnet.

Strain-Induced Extrinsic High-Temperature Ferromagnetism in the Fe-Doped Hexagonal Barium Titanate (2015)
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Zorko, A., Pregelj, M., Gomilšek, M., Jagličić, Z., Pajić, D., Telling, M., Arčon, I., Mikulska, I., & Valant, M. (2015). Strain-Induced Extrinsic High-Temperature Ferromagnetism in the Fe-Doped Hexagonal Barium Titanate. Scientific Reports, 5(1), Article 7703. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep07703

Diluted magnetic semiconductors possessing intrinsic static magnetism at high temperatures represent a promising class of multifunctional materials with high application potential in spintronics and magneto-optics. In the hexagonal Fe-doped diluted m... Read More about Strain-Induced Extrinsic High-Temperature Ferromagnetism in the Fe-Doped Hexagonal Barium Titanate.

Light-driven oscillations of entangled nematic colloidal chains (2010)
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Gomilšek, M., Seč, D., Škarabot, M., Ravnik, M., Žumer, S., & Muševič, I. (2010). Light-driven oscillations of entangled nematic colloidal chains. The European Physical Journal E, 33(4), 291-296. https://doi.org/10.1140/epje/i2010-10671-6

Laser tweezers have been used to drive the oscillations of a chain of entangled colloidal particles in the nematic liquid crystal 5CB. The amplitude and phase of light-driven oscillations have been determined for the motion of individual colloidal pa... Read More about Light-driven oscillations of entangled nematic colloidal chains.