“…In the literature, many different magnetic ground states have been proposed for LiNiO 2 : the system has been considered as a possible quantum spin liquid [8], a 2D frustrated antiferromagnet [11], a weakly coupled 2D Ising ferromagnet [9], a 2D Heisenberg ferromagnet [12], a spin glass [13,15], and more recently, as the physical realisation of a quantum spin-orbital liquid [5,16,17,25,26,28]. It is now clear that some of these interpretations have been motivated by different samples, as the magnetic properties of Li 1−x Ni 1+x O 2 are extremely sensitive to the preparation conditions [7,13,14,18].…”