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Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are an exotic state of matter that is subject to extensive research. However, the relationship between the ubiquitous disorder and the QSL behaviors is still unclear. Here, by performing comparative experimental…

Spin liquids represent exotic types of quantum matter that evade conventional symmetry-breaking order even at zero temperature. Exhaustive classifications of spin liquids have been carried out in several systems, particularly in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-19 Johannes Reuther , Shu-Ping Lee , Jason Alicea

Recent excitement in the quantum spin ice community has come from the experimental discovery of pseudospin-$1/2$ breathing pyrochlores, including Ba$_3$Yb$_2$Zn$_5$O$_{11}$, in which inversion symmetry is broken by the `up' and `down'…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-14 Alaric Sanders , Claudio Castelnovo

Spin degrees of freedom of water molecule in gas and liquid state were investigated in order to provide a reasonable answer about the unsolved problem of a long-term behavior of water spin isomers. The approach used involves an assumption…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-24 V. K. Konyukhov

In frustrated Ising magnets, classical spin liquids (CSLs) with macroscopic ground-state degeneracy can survive against conventional magnetic order, as exemplified by systems on triangular, kagome and pyrochlore lattices at zero field. Here…

The pyrochlore materials have long been predicted to harbor a quantum spin liquid, an intrinsic long-range-entangled state supporting fractionalized excitations. Existing pyrochlore experiments, on the other hand, have discovered several…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-19 Chunxiao Liu , Gábor B. Halász , Leon Balents

Spin liquid is a state of electron spins in which quantum fluctuation breaks magnetic ordering while maintaining spin correlation. It has been a central topic in magnetism because of its relevance to high-Tc superconductivity and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-28 Daichi Hirobe , Masahiro Sato , Takayuki Kawamata , Yuki Shiomi , Ken-ichi Uchida , Ryo Iguchi , Yoji Koike , Sadamichi Maekawa , Eiji Saitoh

Spin liquids are quantum phases of matter that exhibit a variety of novel features associated with their topological character. These include various forms of fractionalization - elementary excitations that behave as fractions of an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-20 C. Broholm , R. J. Cava , S. A. Kivelson , D. G. Nocera , M. R. Norman , T. Senthil

A \emph{monopole liquid} is a magnetic charge-disordered spin system defined over an Ising pyrochlore lattice, with one single topological charge or \emph{monopole} in each tetrahedron. We define a simple model Hamiltonian for this system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-24 D. Slobinsky , G. Baglietto , R. A. Borzi

In this paper, we explore the relationship between strong spin-orbit coupling and spin liquid physics. We study a very general model on the triangular lattice where spin-orbit coupling leads to the presence of highly anisotropic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-16 Jason Iaconis , Chunxiao Liu , Gábor B. Halász , Leon Balents

We argue that a relatively simple model containing only SU(2)-invariant chiral three-spin interactions on a Kagome lattice of S=1/2 spins can give rise to both a gapped and a gapless quantum spin liquid. Our arguments are rooted in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-09 Bela Bauer , Brendan P. Keller , Michele Dolfi , Simon Trebst , Andreas W. W. Ludwig

Using Lanczos exact diagonalization of finite clusters we demonstrate that the spin-orbital $d^1$ model for triply degenerate $t_{2g}$ orbitals on a triangular lattice provides an example of a spin-orbital liquid ground state. We also show…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-25 Andrzej M. Oleś , Jiří Chaloupka

The square ice is a two-dimensional spin liquid hosting a Coulomb phase physics. When constrained under specific boundary conditions, the so-called domain-wall boundary conditions, a phase separation occurs that leads to the formation of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-26 Johann Coraux , Nicolas Rougemaille

Artificial spin ices have transcended their origins in frustrated rare-earth pyrochlores to become a versatile platform for engineering exotic states of matter. Across diverse implementations, from nanomagnets and superconducting vortices…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-01 Renaud Baillou , Matthew Terkel , Cristiano Nisoli , Pietro Tierno

A spin glass is a diluted magnetic material in which the magnetic moments are randomly interacting, with a huge number of metastable states which prevent reaching equilibrium. Spin-glass models are conceptually simple, but require very…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-03-03 Eric Vincent

Recent numerical simulations find a possible chiral spin liquid state in the intermediate coupling regime of the triangular lattice Hubbard model. Here we provide a simple picture for its origin in terms of a Bosonic RVB description. More…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-06 Qiu Zhang , Tao Li

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

Quantum spin liquids (QSL) have generated considerable excitement as phases of matter with emergent gauge structures and fractionalized excitations. In this context, phase transitions out of QSLs have been widely discussed as Higgs…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-15 Hyeok-Jun Yang , Nic Shannon , SungBin Lee

Quantum spin liquids have been at the forefront of correlated electron research ever since their original proposal in 1973, and the realization that they belong to the broader class of intrinsic topological orders, along with the fractional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-26 Ioannis Rousochatzakis , Yuriy Sizyuk , Natalia B. Perkins

We study the interplay of topological bottlenecks and energetic barriers to equilibration in a Coulomb spin liquid where a short-range energetic coupling between defects charged under an emergent gauge field supplements their entropic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-20 Masafumi Udagawa , Ludovic D. C. Jaubert , Claudio Castelnovo , Roderich Moessner