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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

A quantum spin liquid (QSL) arises from a highly entangled superposition of many degenerate classical ground states in a frustrated magnet, and is characterized by emergent gauge fields and deconfined fractionalized excitations (spinons).…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-24 Bin Gao , Félix Desrochers , David W. Tam , Paul Steffens , Arno Hiess , Yixi Su , Sang-Wook Cheong , Yong Baek Kim , Pengcheng Dai

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are long-range entangled phases of frustrated magnets exhibiting fractionalized spin excitations. In two dimensions, there is limited analytical understanding of their excitation spectra beyond parton mean-field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-01 Josef Willsher , Johannes Knolle

The search for quantum spin liquids (QSL) -- topological magnets with fractionalized excitations -- has been a central theme in condensed matter and materials physics. While theories are no longer in short supply, tracking down materials…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-11 Anish Bhardwaj , Shu Zhang , Han Yan , Roderich Moessner , Andriy H. Nevidomskyy , Hitesh J. Changlani

Experimental identification of quantum spin ice (QSI), a U(1) quantum spin liquid on the pyrochlore lattice hosting emergent photons, is a major challenge in frustrated magnets. In this work, we propose ultrasound measurements as a novel…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-08-26 Sophia Simon , Adarsh S. Patri , Yong Baek Kim

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

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

We calculate the effect of the emergent photon on threshold production of spinons in $U(1)$ Coulomb spin liquids such as quantum spin ice. The emergent Coulomb interaction modifies the threshold production cross-section dramatically,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-11 Siddhardh C. Morampudi , Frank Wilczek , Chris R. Laumann

The identification of fractionalized excitations in quantum spin liquids (QSLs) remains a central challenge in condensed matter physics. In dipolar-octupolar (DO) pyrochlores, such as $\text{Ce}_2\text{Zr}_2\text{O}_7$, the candidate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-07 Bin Gao , Zhengbang Zhou , Tingjun Zhang , Andrey Podlesnyak , Sang-Wook Cheong , Yong Baek Kim , Pengcheng Dai

Gapless fracton quantum spin liquids are exotic phases of matter described by higher-rank U(1) gauge theories which host gapped and immobile fracton matter excitations as well as gapless photons. Despite well-known field theories, no spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-12 Nils Niggemann , Meghadeepa Adhikary , Yannik Schaden-Thillmann , Johannes Reuther

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are exotic phases of matter exhibiting long-range entanglement and supporting emergent gauge fields. A vigorous search for experimental realizations of these states has identified several materials with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-24 Owen Benton

Quantum Spin Liquids (QSLs) are phases of interacting spins that do not order even at the absolute zero temperature, making it impossible to characterize them by a local order parameter. In this article, we review the unique view provided…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-02-06 Tarun Grover , Yi Zhang , Ashvin Vishwanath

Quantum spin liquids are topological states of matter that arise in frustrated quantum magnets at low temperatures. At low energies, such states exhibit emergent gauge fields and fractionalized quasiparticles and can also possess enhanced…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-20 Vir B. Bulchandani , Benjamin Hsu , Christopher P. Herzog , S. L. Sondhi

The emergence of a quantum spin liquid (QSL), a state of matter that can result when electron spins are highly correlated but do not become ordered, has been the subject of a considerable body of research in condensed matter physics. Spin…

Quantum spin liquid (QSL), a state characterized by exotic low energy fractionalized excitations and statistics is still elusive experimentally and may be gauged via indirect experimental signatures. Remnant of QSL phase may reflect in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-29 Vivek Kumar , Deepu Kumar , Birender Singh , Yuliia Shemerliuk , Mahdi Behnami , Bernd Buchner , Saicharan Aswartham , Pradeep Kumar

In a quantum spin liquid, the magnetic moments of the constituent electron spins evade classical long-range order to form an exotic state that is quantum entangled and coherent over macroscopic length scales [1-2]. Such phases offer…

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…

Symmetry plays a fundamental role in our understanding of both conventional symmetry breaking phases and the more exotic quantum and topological phases of matter. We explore the experimental signatures of symmetry enriched U(1) quantum spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-25 Yao Dong Li , Gang Chen

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…

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
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