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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

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) host exotic fractionalized magnetic and gauge-field excitations whose microscopic origins and experimental verification remain frustratingly elusive. In the absence of static magnetic order, the spin excitation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-31 Jiahang Hu , Runze Chi , Yibin Guo , B. Normand , Hai-Jun Liao , T. Xiang

We point out the experimental relevance and the detection scheme of symmetry enriched U(1) quantum spin liquids (QSLs) outside the perturbative spin-ice regime. Recent experiments on Ce-based pyrochlore QSL materials suggest that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-25 Xu-Ping Yao , Yao Dong Li , Gang Chen

A quantum spin liquid (QSL) is a novel phase of matter with long-range entanglement where localized spins are highly correlated with the vanishing of magnetic order. Such exotic quantum states provide the opportunities to develop new…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-21 Wen-Yuan Liu , Juraj Hasik , Shou-Shu Gong , Didier Poilblanc , Wei-Qiang Chen , Zheng-Cheng Gu

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

This article is an introductory review of the physics of quantum spin liquid (QSL) states. Quantum magnetism is a rapidly evolving field, and recent developments reveal that the ground states and low-energy physics of frustrated spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-21 Yi Zhou , Kazushi Kanoda , Tai-Kai Ng

Several experimental candidates for quantum spin liquids have been discovered in the past few years which appear to support gapless fermionic $S = {1\over 2}$ excitations called spinons. The spinons may form a Fermi sea coupled to a $U(1)$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-02-09 Yi Zhou , Patrick A Lee

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are highly entangled ground states of insulating spin systems, in which magnetic ordering is prevented down to the lowest temperatures due to quantum fluctuations. One of the most extraordinary characteristics of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-22 So Takei , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

A quantum spin liquid is an exotic quantum state of matter in which spins are highly entangled and remain disordered down to zero temperature. Such a state of matter is potentially relevant to high-temperature superconductivity and…

Quantum spin liquids (QSL) are exotic phases of matter that host fractionalized excitations. It is difficult for local probes to characterize QSL, whereas quantum entanglement can serve as a powerful diagnostic tool due to its non-locality.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-30 Wei Zhu , Xiao Chen , Yin-Chen He , William Witczak-Krempa

Cold atoms bring new opportunities to study quantum magnetism, and in particular, to simulate quantum magnets with symmetry greater than $SU(2)$. Here we explore the topological excitations which arise in a model of cold atoms on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-29 Hiroaki T. Ueda , Yutaka Akagi , Nic Shannon

The spin ice materials, including Ho2Ti2O7 and Dy2Ti2O7, are rare earth pyrochlore magnets which, at low temperatures, enter a constrained paramagnetic state with an emergent gauge freedom. Remarkably, the spin ices provide one of very few…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-07-29 Michel J. P. Gingras , Paul A. McClarty

Motivated by recent experimental observations of Kondo resonances in cobalt atoms on single layer 1T-TaSe$_{2}$, we theoretically investigate the effect of coupling a U(1) quantum spin liquid with a spinon Fermi surface to a lattice of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-04-01 Xia-Ming Zheng , Mehdi Kargarian

A glance at recent research on magnetism turns up a curious set of articles discussing, or claiming evidence for, a state of matter called a quantum spin liquid (QSL). These articles are notable in their invocation of exotic notions of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-31 T. Lancaster

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs), in which spins are highly entangled, have been considered a groundwork for generating exotic superconductivity.Despite numerous efforts, superconductivity emerging from QSLs has been unrealized in actual…

Recent ultracold atomic gas experiments implementing synthetic spin-orbit coupling allow access to flatbands that emphasize interactions. We model spin-orbit coupled fermions in a one-dimensional flatband optical lattice. We introduce an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-06-10 Fei Lin , Chuanwei Zhang , V. W. Scarola

We investigate the interplay of localization, interactions and (pseudo)spin degrees of freedom on quantum states of particles on the lattice. Our results show that breaking the paradigm density-density interaction $U_0\gg$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-09 A. M. Belemuk , N. M. Chtchelkatchev , A. V. Mikheyenkov , Wu-Ming Liu

Spin-orbit coupling in solids is typically a single-body effect arising from relativity. In this work, we propose a spontaneous generation of spin-orbit coupling from symmetry breaking. A spin-dependent electron-phonon coupling model is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-23 Xiangyu Zhang , Da Wang , Congjun Wu

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) represent exotic states of matter where quantum spins interact strongly yet evade long-range magnetic order down to absolute zero. Characterized by non-local quantum entanglement and resultant fractionalized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-05 Yuji Matsuda , Takasada Shibauchi , Hae-Young Kee

We investigate the nature of quantum spin liquid (QSL) phase of the spin-$1/2$ nearest-neighbor XXZ antiferromagnet on the kagome lattice. Recent numerical calculations suggest that such a kagome spin liquid is insensitive to the XXZ…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-22 Yin-Chen He , Yohei Fuji , Subhro Bhattacharjee