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Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are fluid-like states of quantum spins where its long-range ordered state is destroyed by quantum fluctuations. The ground state of QSL and its exotic phenomena, which have been extensively discussed for decades,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-10-25 Minoru Yamashita , Takasada Shibauchi , Yuji Matsuda

The existence of a quantum spin liquid (QSL) in which quantum fluctuations of spins are sufficiently strong to preclude spin ordering down to zero temperature was originally proposed theoretically more than 40 years ago, but its…

The main question we address is how to probe the fractionalized excitations of a quantum spin liquid (QSL), for example, in the Kitaev honeycomb model. By analyzing the energy spectrum and entanglement entropy, for antiferromagnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-08 David C. Ronquillo , Adu Vengal , Nandini Trivedi

In this paper we review some connections recently discovered between topological insulators and certain classes of quantum spin liquids, focusing on two and three spatial dimensions. In two dimensions we show the integer quantum Hall effect…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-03-29 Gregory A. Fiete , Victor Chua , Mehdi Kargarian , Rex Lundgren , Andreas Ruegg , Jun Wen , Vladimir Zyuzin

Classical spin liquids (CSLs) are intriguing states of matter that do not exhibit long-range magnetic order and are characterized by an extensive ground-state degeneracy. Adding quantum fluctuations, which induce dynamics between these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-12 Duyu Chen , Rhine Samajdar , Yang Jiao , Salvatore Torquato

We study the topological entanglement entropy and scalar chirality of a topologically ordered skyrmion formed in a two-dimensional triangular lattice. Scalar chirality remains a smooth function of the magnetic field in both helical and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-08 Vipin Vijayan , L. Chotorlishvili , A. Ernst , S. S. P. Parkin , M. I. Katsnelson , S. K. Mishra

Quantum spin liquid (QSL) has become an exciting topic in interacting spin systems that do not order magnetically down to the lowest experimentally accessible temperature; however, conclusive experimental evidence remains lacking. Motivated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-26 Saikat Banerjee , Wei Zhu , Shi-Zeng Lin

We here investigate the entanglement structure of the ground state of a (3+1)-dimensional U(1) quantum spin liquid, which is described by the deconfined phase of a compact U(1) gauge theory. A gapless photon is the only low-energy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-14 Michael Pretko , T. Senthil

Quantum spin liquids, exotic phases of matter with topological order, have been a major focus of explorations in physical science for the past several decades. Such phases feature long-range quantum entanglement that can potentially be…

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) represent a novel state where spins are highly entangled but do not order even at zero temperature due to strong quantum fluctuations. Such a state is mostly studied in Heisenberg models defined on geometrically…

We review some recent results on entanglement in the Quantum Spherical Model (QSM). The focus lays on the physical results rather than the mathematical details. Specifically, we study several entanglement-related quantities, such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-28 Sascha Wald , Raul Arias , Vincenzo Alba

The concept of entanglement entropy appears in multiple contexts, from black hole physics to quantum information theory, where it measures the entanglement of quantum states. We investigate the entanglement entropy in a simple model, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Karyn Le Hur

We study fermionic quantum spin liquids (QSLs) on the three-dimensonal trillium lattice of corner-sharing triangles. We are motivated by recent experimental and theoretical investigations that have explored various classical and quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-05 Ming-Hao Li , Sounak Biswas , S. A. Parameswaran

For the purpose of clarifying a new approach to understanding quantum entanglement using thermofield dynamics (TFD), entanglement entropies of non-equilibrium finite-spin systems are examined for both traditional and extended cases. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-02-18 Koichi Nakagawa

We introduce a new measure called reduced entropy of sublattice to quantify entanglement in spin, electron and boson systems. By analyzing this quantity, we reveal an intriguing connection between quantum entanglement and quantum phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. Chen , Z. D. Wang , F. C. Zhang

Entanglement is the quintessential quantum phenomenon and a necessary ingredient in most emerging quantum technologies, including quantum repeaters, quantum information processing (QIP) and the strongest forms of quantum cryptography. Spin…

Entanglement of the ground states in $XXZ$ and dimerized Heisenberg spin chains as well as in a two-leg spin ladder is analyzed by using the spin-spin concurrence and the entanglement entropy between a selected sublattice of spins and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Yan Chen , Paolo Zanardi , Z. D. Wang , F. C. Zhang

The Kitaev model belongs to an unconventional class of two-dimensional spin systems characterized by anisotropic, bond-dependent interactions that give rise to Quantum Spin Liquid (QSL) states. These exotic phases, marked by the absence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-29 A. R. Moura , L. V. Santos

The complex interplay between charge and spin dynamics lies at the heart of strongly correlated quantum materials, and it is a fundamental topic in basic research with far reaching technological perspectives. We explore in this paper the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-09 Jens H. Nyhegn , Kristian Knakkergaard Nielsen , Leon Balents , Georg M. Bruun

We propose and explore a new finite temperature phase of translationally invariant multi-component liquids which we call a "Quantum Disentangled Liquid" (QDL) phase. We contemplate the possibility that in fluids consisting of two (or more)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-27 Tarun Grover , Matthew P. A. Fisher