Materials reach new levels of frustration
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Subjects Magnetic properties and materialsPhase transitions and critical phenomena The small-bandgap semiconductors LnCd3P3 (Ln = La, Ce, Pr and Nd) are promising materials to study emergent phenomena from geometric frustration across bond, spin and charge degrees of freedom. Access through your institution Buy or subscribe This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution Access options Access through your institution Access Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio journals Get Nature+, our best-value online-access subscription $32.99 / 30 days cancel any time Learn more Subscribe to this journal Receive 12 print issues and online access $259.00 per year only $21.58 per issue Learn more Rent or buy this article Prices vary by article type from$1.95 to$39.95 Learn more Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout Fig. 1: Interleaved frustration of lattice geometry and bond order in small-gap semiconductors LnCd3P3. ReferencesBroholm, C. et al. Science 367, eaay0668 (2020).Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Anderson, P. W. Science 235, 1196–1198 (1987).Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Ortiz, B. R. et al. Nat. Phys. 19, 943–949 (2023).Article CAS Google Scholar Kitaoka, Y. et al. J. Phys. Soc. Jpn 67, 3703–3706 (1998).Article CAS Google Scholar Gomez Alvarado, S. J. et al. Nat Mater. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02380-x (2025).Article PubMed Google Scholar Wills, A. S., Ballou, R. & Lacroix, C. Phys. Rev. B 66, 144407 (2002).Article Google Scholar Kollár, A. J., Fitzpatrick, M., Sarnak, P. & Houck, A. A. Commun. Math. Phys. 376, 1909–1956 (2020).Article Google Scholar Download referencesAuthor informationAuthors and AffiliationsDepartment of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USAAravind DevarakondaAuthorsAravind DevarakondaView author publicationsSearch author on:PubMed Google ScholarCorresponding authorCorrespondence to Aravind Devarakonda.Ethics declarations Competing interests The author declares no competing interests. Rights and permissionsReprints and permissionsAbout this articleCite this articleDevarakonda, A. Materials reach new levels of frustration. Nat. Mater. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02442-0Download citationPublished: 16 December 2025Version of record: 16 December 2025DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02442-0Share this articleAnyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content:Get shareable linkSorry, a shareable link is not currently available for this article.Copy shareable link to clipboard Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative Interleaved bond frustration in a triangular lattice antiferromagnet S. J. Gomez AlvaradoJ. R. ChamorroStephen D.
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