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Doping a frustrated correlated van der Waals magnet

When many-body correlations in quantum materials control the motion of electrons, new quantum states can emerge. Now, a study demonstrates that doping a van der Waals correlated insulator leads to collective electronic reordering arising due to quantum many-body interactions.

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Fig. 1: Artistic depiction of an electron–hole crystal in a RuCl3 van der Waals material.

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Lado, J.L. Doping a frustrated correlated van der Waals magnet. Nat. Mater. 23, 1013–1014 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-024-01948-3

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