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Quantum spin liquid (QSL) is an exotic quantum phase of matter whose ground state is quantum-mechanically entangled without any magnetic ordering. A central issue concerns emergent excitations that characterize QSLs, which are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-08 Y. Tokiwa , T. Yamashita , D. Terazawa , K. Kimura , Y. Kasahara , T. Onishi , Y. Kato , M. Halim , P. Gegenwart , T. Shibauchi , S. Nakatsuji , E. -G. Moon , Y. Matsuda

Actively shought since the turn of the century, two-dimensional quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are exotic phases of matter where magnetic moments remain disordered even at extremely low temperatures. Despite ongoing searches, QSLs remain…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-22 Juan Carrasquilla , Zhihao Hao , Roger G. Melko

The realization of quantum spin liquids (QSLs) in Kitaev magnets represents an intriguing topic in frustrated quantum magnetism. Despite prediction in the pure Kitaev honeycomb model, realization of QSLs in realistic systems and materials…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-11 Han Li , Xu-Guang Zhou , Gang Su , Wei Li

A quantum spin liquid (QSL) is an exotic insulating phase with emergent gauge fields and fractionalized excitations. However, the unambiguous demonstration of the existence of a QSL in a "non-engineered" microscopic model (or in any…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-01 Xun Cai , Zhaoyu Han , Zi-Xiang Li , Steven A. Kivelson , Hong Yao

Quantum materials exhibiting magnetic frustration are connected to diverse phenomena including high-Tc superconductivity, topological order and quantum spin liquids (QSLs). A QSL is a quantum phase (QP) related to a quantum-entangled…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-03 Samuel Mañas-Valero , Benjamin Huddart , Tom Lancaster , Eugenio Coronado , Francis Pratt

We report discovery of a new iridate family K$_x$Ir$_y$O$_2$ with depleted triangular lattice planes made up of edge sharing IrO$_6$ octahedra separated by K planes. Such a material interpolates between the triangular and honeycomb lattices…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-23 Kavita Mehlawat , Yogesh Singh

Cs2CuCl4 is known to possess a quantum spin liquid phase with antiferromagnetic interaction below 2.8 K. We report the observation of a new metastable magnetic phase of the triangular frustrated quantum spin system Cs2CuCl4 induced by the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-18 Hyeong-Jin Kim , C. R. S. Haines , C. Liu , Sae Hwan Chun , Kee Hoon Kim , H. T. Yi , Sang-Wook Cheong , Siddharth S. Saxena

Quantum spin liquids (QSL) are theoretical states of matter with long-range entanglement and exotic quasiparticles. However, they generally elude quantitative theory, rendering their underlying phases mysterious and hampering efforts to…

We investigate the zero- and finite-temperature properties of the bond-random $s=1/2$ Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the pyrochlore lattice by the exact diagonalization and the Hams--de Raedt methods. We find that the randomness induces the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-28 Kazuki Uematsu , Hikaru Kawamura

We found a plateau in the magnitude of the isolated magnetic moments as a function of the anisotropy of the transfer integral (t'/t) in the gapless quantum spin liquid (QSL) phase of an S=1/2 triangular lattice molecular solid X[Pd(dmit)2]2…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-20 K. Ueda , S. Fujiyama , R. Kato

Quantum spin liquids are highly entangled ground states of quantum systems with emergent gauge structure, fractionalized spinon excitations, and other unusual properties. While these features clearly distinguish quantum spin liquids from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-06-18 Lucile Savary , Leon Balents

YbZn$_2$GaO$_5$ is a promising candidate for realizing a quantum spin liquid (QSL) state, particularly owing to its lack of significant site disorder. Pulsed-field magnetometry at 0.5 K shows magnetization saturating near 15 T, with a…

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

A quantum magnet, LiCuSbO4, with chains of edge-sharing S = 1/2 CuO6 octahedra is reported. While the Curie-Weiss constant is ferromagnetic, \theta = 30 K, no phase transition or spin freezing occurs down to 100 mK. Specific heat indicates…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-05-04 S. E. Dutton , M. Kumar , M. Mourigal , Z. G. Soos , J. -J. Wen , C. L. Broholm , N. H. Andersen , Q. Huang , M. Zbiri , R. Toft-Petersen , R. J. Cava

Spin liquids are exotic phases of quantum matter challenging Landau's paradigm of symmetry-breaking phase transitions. Despite strong exchange interactions, spins do not order or freeze down to zero temperature. While well-established for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-22 P. Khuntia , M. Velazquez , Q. Barthélemy , F. Bert , E. Kermarrec , A. Legros , B. Bernu , L. Messio , A. Zorko , P. Mendels

CeTa$_7$O$_{19}$ is a recently found two-dimensional triangular lattice antiferromagnet without showing magnetic order. We grew high-quality CeTa$_7$O$_{19}$ single crystals and studied the low-temperature magnetic susceptibility, specific…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-06 N. Li , A. Rutherford , Y. Y. Wang , H. Liang , Y. Zhou , Y. Sun , D. D. Wu , P. F. Chen , Q. J. Li , H. Wang , W. Xie , E. S. Choi , S. Z. Zhang , M. Lee , H. D. Zhou , X. F. Sun

The spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnetic chain is ideal for realizing one of the simplest gapless quantum spin-liquids (QSLs), supporting a many-body ground state whose elementary excitations are fractional fermionic excitations called…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-01 Thao T. Tran , Chris A. Pocs , Yubo Zhang , Michal J. Winiarski , Jianwei Sun , Minhyea Lee , Tyrel M. McQueen

A quantum spin liquid (QSL) is an exotic quantum state of matter characterized by fluctuating spins which may exhibit long-range entanglement. Among the possible host candidates for a QSL ground state, the $S$=1/2 kagome lattice…

Condensed matter physicists have long sought a realistic two-dimensional (2D) magnetic system whose ground state is a {\it spin liquid}---a zero temperature state in which quantum fluctuations have melted away any form of magnetic order.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-08-16 Simeng Yan , David A. Huse , Steven R. White

We report proximate quantum spin liquid behavior in K$_2$Co$_2$(SO$_4$)$_3$ with the magnetic Co$^{2+}$ ions embedded on a highly frustrated three-dimensional double trillium lattice. Single-crystal and high-resolution synchrotron powder…