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Two-dimensional metal-organic frameworks (2D MOFs) have attracted much attention, as they are the crystalline materials that exhibit both conductivity and microporosity. Numerous efforts have been made to advance their application as chemiresistive sensors or electrochemical capacitors. However, the intrinsic physical properties and spin states of these materials remain poorly understood. Most of these 2D MOFs possess a honeycomb lattice, with a Kagomé lattice arrangement of metal cations. These structural characteristics suggest that these MOFs would be candidates for geometrically frustrated spin systems with unprecedented magnetic phenomena. Herein, by performing magnetic susceptibility and specific heat measurements at an ultralow temperature down to 38mK on a 2D semiconductive MOF, Cu3(HHTP)2, a quantum spin liquid state that arises from the geometrical frustration was suggested. This result illustrates the potential of strongly correlated MOFs as systems with emergent phenomena induced by unusual structural topologies.
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We report the first 3D spin liquid state of isotropic organic spins. Structural analysis, and magnetic and heat-capacity measurements were carried out for a chiral organic radical salt, (TBA)_{1.5}[(-)-NDI-Δ] (TBA denotes tetrabutylammonium and NDI denotes naphthalene diimide), in which (-)-NDI-Δ forms a K_{4} structure due to its triangular molecular structure and an intermolecular π-π overlap between the NDI moieties. This lattice was identical to the hyperkagome lattice of S=1/2 Mott dimers, and should exhibit 3D spin frustration. In fact, even though the high-temperature magnetic susceptibility followed the Curie-Weiss law with a negative Weiss constant of θ=-15 K, the low-temperature magnetic measurements revealed no long-range magnetic ordering down to 70 mK, and suggested the presence of a spin liquid state with a large residual paramagnetism χ_{0} of 8.5×10^{-6} emu g^{-1} at the absolute zero temperature. This was supported by the ^{14}N NMR measurements down to 0.38 K. Further, the low-temperature heat capacities c_{p} down to 68 mK clearly indicated the presence of c_{p} for the spin liquid state, which can be fitted to the power law of T^{0.62} in the wide temperature range 0.07-4.5 K.
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Superfluidity in one and three dimensions has been studied for 4He fluid films adsorbed in nanopores which are straight channels and three-dimensionally connected pores, respectively. We observed the superfluid in one and three dimensions where thermal phonon wavelengths are much longer than the channel diameter and the period of the pore connection, respectively, and found that the superfluid onset depends on the pore connection. In the straight channels, the observed superfluid density disappears at a temperature far below the heat capacity anomaly of the Ginzburg-Landau transition, while in the pores connected in three dimension, the adsorbed 4He films show an evident three-dimensional transition where the superfluid onset occurs at the heat capacity peak.
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Heat capacity measurements have been made down to 5 mK for 3He fluid films adsorbed in one-dimensional (1D) nanometer-scale pores, 28 A in diameter, preplated with 4He of 1.47 atomic layers. At low 3He density, the heat capacity shows a density-dependent, Schottky-like peak near 150 mK asymptoting to the value corresponding to a 2D Boltzmann gas at high temperatures. The peak behavior is attributed to the crossover from a 2D gas to a 1D state at low temperatures. The degenerate state of the 1D 3He fluid is indicated by a predominantly linear temperature dependence below about 30 mK.