Phase diagram of SrCu2(BO3)2 as a function of pressure and temperature.
With QM investigator Dr. Montu Saxena, a team of scientists led by colleagues at EPFL and the Paul Scherrer Institut have realized experimentally a new quantum many body state in a material representing a famous theoretical model called the "Shastry-Sutherland" model. The Shastry-Sutherland model is one of the few 2D models that have an exact theoretical solution, which represents the quantum pairwise entanglement of magnetic moments in a square lattice structure. When conceived, the Shastry-Sutherland model seemed an abstract theoretical construct, but remarkably it was discovered that this model is realized experimentally in the material SrCu2(BO3)2. The work is published in Nature Physics. Read more here.(27/9/2017)