Probing Electronic transport in thin crystals of ruthenium chloride through Ionic Liquid gating.

Ruthenium chloride (RuCl3) has gathered significant interest in the last years, as it is a layered material with key features such as a honeycomb geometry and bond-directional interactions, which make it a promising candidate for the experimental realization of the Kitaev-Heisenberg model. Exciting ground states have been predicted for this system, such as quantum spin liquids, consistent with recent inelastic neutron scattering experiments [1] as well as long ranged magnetic ordered states [2]. Here we present preliminary electronic transport experiments on thin crystals of RuCl3 and the effects of ionic liquid gating.

[1] A. Banergee, et al. Neutron scattering in the proximate quantum spin liquid -RuCl3. Science 356, 1055-1059 (2017).

[2] J. A. Sears, M. Songvilay, K. W. Plumb, J. P. Clancy, Y. Qiu, Y. Zhao, D. Parshall and Young-June Kim, Phys. Rev. B 91, 144420 (2015).