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The search of quantum spin liquid (QSL), an exotic magnetic state with strongly-fluctuating and highly-entangled spins down to zero temperature, is a main theme in current condensed matter physics. However, there is no smoking-gun evidence…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-27 Z. H. Zhu , B. L. Pan , L. P. Nie , J. M. Ni , Y. X. Yang , C. S. Chen , Y. Y. Huang , E. J. Cheng , Y. J. Yu , A. D. Hillier , X. H. Chen , T. Wu , Y. Zhou , S. Y. Li , L. Shu

Recent experiments on ice formed by water under nanoconfinement provide evidence for a two-dimensional (2D) `square ice' phase. However, the interpretation of the experiments has been questioned and the stability of square ice has become a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 Ji Chen , Andrea Zen , Jan Gerit Brandenburg , Dario Alfè , Angelos Michaelides

We present a numerical study of magnetic ordering in spin ice on kagome, a two-dimensional lattice of corner-sharing triangles. The magnet has six ground states and the ordering occurs in two stages, as one might expect for a six-state…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-11-21 Gia-Wei Chern , Oleg Tchernyshyov

Frustrated magnets such as spin ice exhibit Coulomb phases, where correlations have power-law forms at long distances. Applied perturbations can cause ordering transitions which cannot be described by the usual Landau paradigm, and are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-01-14 Stephen Powell

We study entanglement between quantum states of multi level spin system of a single particle considering a nucleus with spin 3/2 in both the internal electric field gradient and the external magnetic field. It was shown that entanglement is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-06-21 G. B. Furman , V. M. Meerovich , V. L. Sokolovsky

In condensed matter physics, there is a novel phase termed "quantum spin liquid", in which strong quantum fluctuations prevent the long-range magnetic order from being established, and so the electron spins do not form an ordered pattern…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-10 Jinsheng Wen , Shun-Li Yu , Shiyan Li , Weiqiang Yu , Jian-Xin Li

We realize a three-dimensional artificial spin ice of disconnected nanomagnets interacting solely via dipolar coupling, patterned on square pyramids. This Pyramid artificial spin ice, with both tilted and in-plane nanomagnets, supports…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Luca Berchialla , Gavin M. Macauley , Flavien Museur , Anja Weber , Laura J. Heyderman

The ground-state properties of spin-polarized tritium T$\downarrow$ at zero temperature are obtained by means of diffusion Monte Carlo calculations. Using an accurate {\em ab initio} T$\downarrow$-T$\downarrow$ interatomic potential we have…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 I. Beslic , L. Vranjes Markic , J. Boronat

Artificial spin ice systems have been introduced as a possible mean to investigate frustration effects in a well-controlled manner by fabricating lithographically-patterned two-dimensional arrangements of interacting magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Yann Perrin , Benjamin Canals , Nicolas Rougemaille

Artificial spin ices are arrays of coupled nanomagnets, which exhibit a variety of fascinating collective behaviour including emergent magnetic monopoles, charge screening, and novel phase transitions. However, they have mainly been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-09 Gavin M. Macauley , Luca Berchialla , Peter M. Derlet , Laura J. Heyderman

In this study, we propose an exotic quantum state which does not order at zero temperature in a Rydberg atom array with antiblockade mechanism. By performing an unbiased large-scale quantum Monte Carlo simulation, we investigate a minimal…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-07-23 Tengzhou Zhang , Zi Cai

Magnetic pyrochlores with non-Kramers rare-earth ions provide a platform for exploring emergent gauge physics and quantum spin-ice behavior, yet the influence of structural disorder on their ground states remains insufficiently understood.…

Recent experiments have shown that, counterintuitively, applying a magnetic field to a Wigner crystal can induce quantum Hall effects. In this Letter, we use variational Monte Carlo to show that a magnetic field can melt zero-field Wigner…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Aidan P. Reddy , Liang Fu

Frustrated systems exhibit remarkable properties due to the high degeneracy of their ground states. Stabilised by competing interactions, a rich diversity of typically nanometre-sized phase structures appear in polymer and colloidal…

Many interesting problems in physics, chemistry, and computer science are equivalent to problems of interacting spins. However, most of these problems require computational resources that are out of reach by classical computers. A promising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-07 Jingfu Zhang , Man-Hong Yung , Raymond Laflamme , Alán Aspuru-Guzik , Jonathan Baugh

It has been known since the pioneering work of Bernal, Fowler and Pauling that common, hexagonal (Ih) water ice is the archetype of a frustrated material : a proton-bonded network in which protons satisfy strong local constraints - the "ice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-04-01 Owen Benton , Olga Sikora , Nic Shannon

Geometrically frustrated spin-chain compounds such as Ca3Co2O6 exhibit extremely slow relaxation under a changing magnetic field. Consequently, both low-temperature laboratory experiments and Monte Carlo simulations have shown peculiar…

Unlike conventional magnets where the magnetic moments are partially or completely static in the ground state, in a quantum spin liquid they remain in collective motion down to the lowest temperatures. The importance of this state is that…

Kagome spin ice is one of the canonical examples of highly frustrated magnets. The effective magnetic degrees of freedom in kagome spin ice are Ising spins residing on a two-dimensional network of corner-sharing triangles. Due to strong…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-18 Zhijie Fan , Gia-Wei Chern

The complexity embedded in condensed matter fertilizes the discovery of new states of matter, enriched by ingredients like frustration. Illustrating examples in magnetic systems are Kitaev spin liquids, skyrmions phases, or spin ices. These…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-10 E. Lefrançois , V. Cathelin , E. Lhotel , J. Robert , P. Lejay , C. V. Colin , B. Canals , F. Damay , J. Ollivier , B. Fåk , L. C. Chapon , R. Ballou , V. Simonet