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高山 知弘*; Yaresko, A.*; 松本 章代*; Nuss, J.*; 石井 賢司; 吉田 雅洋*; 水木 純一郎; 高木 英典*
Scientific Reports (Internet), 4, p.6818_1 - 6818_6, 2014/10
被引用回数:31 パーセンタイル:81.72(Multidisciplinary Sciences)The complex iridium oxide NaIrO with a B-site ordered spinel structure was synthesized in single crystalline form, where the chiral hyper-kagome lattice of Irions, as observed in the spin-liquid candidate NaIrO, was identified. The average valence of Ir is 4.33+ and, therefore, NaIrO can be viewed as a doped analogue of the hyper-kagome spin liquid with Ir. The transport measurements, combined with the electronic structure calculations, indicate that the ground state of NaIrO is a low carrier density semi-metal. We argue that the semi-metallic state is produced by a competition of the molecular orbital splitting of orbitals on Ir triangles with strong spin-orbit coupling inherent to heavy Ir ions.