Making of the Paper, “Spin-orbit Fluctuations in Frustrated Heavy-fermion Metal LiV₂O₄”

Abstract

In condensed-matter physics, spinel-type oxide metal LiV₂O₄ has attracted much attention for recent two decades, thanks to the combination of frustration and extremely heavy electron. Here we feature the making with findings of the entitled paper studying this material. Our preliminary single-crystal neutron study and published powder study are introduced with this point of view. The characteristic form factors to demarcate a metal from an insulator are also discussed.