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We carry out an analytical study of quantum spin ice, a U$(1)$ quantum spin liquid close to the classical spin ice solution for an effective spin $1/2$ model with anisotropic exchange couplings $J_{zz}$, $J_{\pm}$ and $J_{z\pm}$ on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-02-13 Zhihao Hao , Alexandre G. R. Day , M. J. P. Gingras

Frustrated magnetism in the pyrochlore lattice magnet has proven to be a most fruitful setting for the experimental and theoretical search for spin liquids. Besides the canonical case of spin ice, recent works have identified a variety of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-03 Daniel Lozano-Gómez , Owen Benton , Michel J. P. Gingras , Han Yan

We study the finite temperature properties of the candidate quantum spin ice material Yb$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$ within the framework of an anisotropic nearest-neighbor spin $1/2$ model on the pyrochlore lattice. Using a combination of finite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-21 Hitesh J. Changlani

A quantum spin liquid (QSL) is a state of matter where unpaired electrons' spins in a solid are quantum entangled, but do not show magnetic order in the zero-temperature limit. Because such a state may be important to the microscopic origin…

Quantum spin liquids are exotic phases of matter whose low-energy physics is described as the deconfined phase of an emergent gauge theory. With recent theory proposals and an experiment showing preliminary signs of $\mathbb{Z}_2$…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-04-14 Jeet Shah , Gautam Nambiar , Alexey V. Gorshkov , Victor Galitski

Emergent gauge fields and Coulomb liquids have long been central to the physics of frustrated pyrochlore magnets, yet their realization beyond conventional, i.e. rank-1 $U(1)$, spin ice and into fully quantum higher-rank regimes has…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-18 Lasse Gresista , Daniel Lozano-Gómez , Matthias Vojta , Simon Trebst , Yasir Iqbal

Spin ice is a frustrated magnetic system that at low temperatures exhibits a Coulomb phase, a classical spin liquid with topological order and deconfined excitations. This work establishes the presence of a Coulomb phase with coexisting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-30 Stephen Powell

We use the projective symmetry group analysis to classify the quantum spin liquids on the $S=1/2$ pyrochlore magnet with a breathing anisotropy. We find 40 $\mathbb{Z}_2$ spin liquids and 16 $U(1)$ spin liquids that respect the $F\bar{4}3m$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-17 Li Ern Chern , Yong Baek Kim , Claudio Castelnovo

Quantum spin ice materials, pyrochlore magnets with competing Ising and transverse exchange interactions, have been widely discussed as candidates for a quantum spin-liquid ground state. Here, motivated by quantum chemical calculations for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-15 Owen Benton , L. D. C. Jaubert , Rajiv Singh , Jaan Oitmaa , Nic Shannon

The quantum spin liquid (QSL) is a highly entangled magnetic state characterized by the absence of static magnetism in its ground state. Instead, the spins fluctuate in a highly correlated way down to the lowest temperatures. The QSL is…

We demonstrate the existence of orbital Coulomb phase as the exact ground state of p-orbital exchange Hamiltonian on the diamond lattice. The Coulomb phase is an emergent state characterized by algebraic dipolar correlations and a gauge…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-05-21 Gia-Wei Chern , Congjun Wu

We study the quantum spin dynamics of a frustrated XXZ model on a pyrochlore lattice by using large-scale quantum Monte Carlo simulation and stochastic analytic continuation. In the low-temperature quantum spin ice regime, we observe…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-19 Chun-Jiong Huang , Youjin Deng , Yuan Wan , Zi Yang Meng

Recent work has highlighted remarkable effects of classical thermal fluctuations in the dipolar spin ice compounds, such as "artificial magnetostatics", manifesting as Coulombic power-law spin correlations and particles behaving as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-10-11 Kate A. Ross , Lucile Savary , Bruce D. Gaulin , Leon Balents

Pyrochlore magnets have proven to provide an excellent arena for the realization of a variety of many-body phenomena such as classical and quantum order-by-disorder, as well as spin liquid phases described by emergent gauge field theories.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-21 Niccolò Francini , Lukas Janssen , Daniel Lozano-Gómez

We study the low-temperature physics of the $SU(2)$-symmetric spin-$1/2$ Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a pyrochlore lattice and find fingerprint evidence for the thermal spin-ice state in this frustrated quantum magnet. Our conclusions are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-04 Yuan Huang , Kun Chen , Youjin Deng , Nikolay Prokof'ev , Boris Svistunov

Quantum spin liquid is an exotic quantum state of matter in magnets. This state is a spin analogue of the liquid helium which does not solidify down to the lowest temperature due to strong quantum fluctuations. In conventional fluids,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-22 Joji Nasu , Masafumi Udagawa , Yukitoshi Motome

There is a growing interest in the $U(1)$ Coulomb liquid in both quantum materials in pyrochlore ice and cluster Mott insulators and cold atom systems. We explore a paired hardcore boson model on a pyrochlore lattice. This model is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-04 Chun-Jiong Huang , Changle Liu , Ziyang Meng , Yue Yu , Youjin Deng , Gang Chen

On a lattice composed of triangular plaquettes where antiferromagnetic exchange interactions between localized spins cannot be simultaneously satisfied, the system becomes geometrically frustrated with magnetically disordered phases…

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

Motivated by the magnetism of pyrochlore oxides, we consider the effect of quantum fluctuations in the most general symmetry-allowed nearest-neighbor Kramers exchange Hamiltonian on the pyrochlore lattice. At the classical level, this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-12 Lasse Gresista , Daniel Lozano-Gómez , Matthias Vojta , Simon Trebst , Yasir Iqbal