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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…

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) host a variety of fractionalized particles. In Kitaev's paradigmatic honeycomb model a spin-$\tfrac{1}{2}$ fractionalizes into $Z_2$ flux due to emergent $Z_2$ gauge field and matter Majorana fermions. Although…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-22 Shi Feng , Nandini Trivedi

Quantum spin liquids are exotic states of matter that may be realized in frustrated quantum magnets and feature fractionalized excitations and emergent gauge fields. Here, we consider a gapless U(1) spin liquid with spinon Fermi pockets in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-25 Wilhelm G. F. Krüger , Lukas Janssen

Topological states of matter present a wide variety of striking new phenomena. Prominent among these is the fractionalisation of electrons into unusual particles: Majorana fermions [1], Laughlin quasiparticles [2] or magnetic monopoles [3].…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-26 J. Knolle , D. L. Kovrizhin , J. T. Chalker , R. Moessner

Quantum spin liquids provide paradigmatic examples of highly entangled quantum states of matter. Frustration is the key mechanism to favor spin liquids over more conventional magnetically ordered states. Here we propose to engineer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-29 Alessio Chiocchetta , Dominik Kiese , Carl Philipp Zelle , Francesco Piazza , Sebastian Diehl

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are long-range entangled states of quantum magnets which lie beyond the Landau paradigm of classifying phases of matter via broken symmetries. A physical route to arriving at QSLs is via frustration-induced…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-09-20 Ciarán Hickey , Lukasz Cincio , Zlatko Papić , Arun Paramekanti

Topological spin liquids in two spatial dimensions are stable phases in the presence of a small magnetic field, but may give way to field-induced phenomena at intermediate field strengths. Sandwiched between the low-field spin liquid…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-17 Ciarán Hickey , Matthias Gohlke , Christoph Berke , Simon Trebst

The possible emergence of a spin liquid phase in the half-filled Hubbard model on the honeycomb lattice; a simple model of graphene, is studied using the variational cluster approximation. We found that the critical interaction strength of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-24 Atsushi Yamada

A class of the symmetrically frustrated SU(N) models is constructed for quantum magnets based on the generators of SU(N) group. The total Hamiltonian lacks SU(N) symmtry. A mean field theory in the quasi-particle representation is developed…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Peng Li , Shun-Qing Shen

We study a class of disordered continuous classical spin systems including the kagome Heisenberg magnet. While each term in its local Hamiltonian can be independently minimised, we find {\it discrete} degenerate ground states whose number…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-13 Thomas Bilitewski , Mike E. Zhitomirsky , Roderich Moessner

The Kitaev spin liquid, stabilized as the ground state of the Kitaev honeycomb model, is a paradigmatic example of a topological $\mathbb{Z}_2$ quantum spin liquid. The fate of the Kitaev spin liquid in presence of an external magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-04 Will Holdhusen , Daniel Huerga , Gerardo Ortiz

We perform highly accurate density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) simulations to investigate the ground state properties of the spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic square lattice Heisenberg $J_1$-$J_2$ model. Based on studies of numerous long…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-07-20 Hong-Chen Jiang , Hong Yao , Leon Balents

The spin-1/2 Heisenberg model on the pyrochlore lattice is an iconic frustrated three-dimensional spin system with a rich phase diagram. Besides hosting several ordered phases, the model is debated to possess a spin-liquid ground state when…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-16 Nikita Astrakhantsev , Tom Westerhout , Apoorv Tiwari , Kenny Choo , Ao Chen , Mark H. Fischer , Giuseppe Carleo , Titus Neupert

Mott insulators with localized magnetic moments will exhibit a quantum spin liquid (QSL) state when the quantum fluctuations are strong enough to suppress the ordering of the spins. Such an entangled state will give rise to collective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-17 Haiyang Chen , Fo-Hong Wang , Qiang Gao , Xue-Jian Gao , Zhenhua Chen , Yaobo Huang , Kam Tuen Law , Xiao Yan Xu , Peng Chen

The quantum spin liquid is an enigmatic quantum state in insulating magnets, in which conventional long-range order is suppressed by strong quantum fluctuations. Recently, an unconventional phase transition was reported between the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-27 Petr A. Mishchenko , Yasuyuki Kato , Yukitoshi Motome

Motivated by the recent experiments on the new spin half Kagome compound ZnCu3(OH)6Cl2, we study a phenomenological model of a frustrated quantum magnet. The model has a spin liquid groundstate and is constructed so as to mimic the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Chitra , M. J. Rozenberg

Quantum spin liquids represent exotic states of spin systems characterized by long-range entanglement and emergent fractionalized quasiparticles. It is generally believed that disorder is hostile to quantum spin liquids. In our study, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-30 Aini Xu , Qinxin Shen , Bo Liu , Zhenyuan Zeng , Lankun Han , Liqin Yan , Jun Luo , Jie Yang , Rui Zhou , Shiliang Li

There have been tremendous experimental and theoretical efforts toward discovery of quantum spin liquid phase in honeycomb-based-lattice materials with strong spin-orbit coupling. Here the bond-dependent Kitaev interaction between local…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-23 Heung-Sik Kim , Yong Baek Kim , Hae-Young Kee

We examine the spin-$S$ quantum Heisenberg magnet with Gaussian-random, infinite-range exchange interactions. The quantum-disordered phase is accessed by generalizing to $SU(M)$ symmetry and studying the large $M$ limit. For large $S$ the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-01-23 Subir Sachdev , Jinwu Ye

The honeycomb magnet $\alpha-$RuCl$_3$ is a prime candidate material for realizing the Kitaev quantum spin liquid (QSL), but it shows long-range magnetic order at low temperature. Nevertheless, its broad inelastic neutron scattering (INS)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-23 Oliver Franke , Dumitru Călugăru , Andreas Nunnenkamp , Johannes Knolle