The two-dimensional kagome lattice with S=1/2 spins is a theoretically well-established way to realize a quantum spin liquid. However, all real materials are more complicated due to additional interactions and impurity effects. Up to now, all studied materials had only one spacer layer between the kagome planes, making it hard to fully decouple the layers and disentangle the inter- and intra-layer contributions to the experimental observations. We have recently studied a new material – averievite, where two spacer layers are present between the kagome planes, and have found that depleting both layers of magnetic ions is key to achieving a fully dynamic ground state. Learn more about it at https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20871
