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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

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are exotic states of matter characterized by emergent gauge structures and fractionalized elementary excitations. The recently discovered triangular lattice antiferromagnet YbMgGaO$_4$ is a promising QSL…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-04 Yao Shen , Yao-Dong Li , H. C. Walker , P. Steffens , M. Boehm , Xiaowen Zhang , Shoudong Shen , Hongliang Wo , Gang Chen , Jun Zhao

Quantum fluctuations enhanced by frustration and subtle interplay between competing degrees of freedom offer an ideal ground to realize novel states with fractional quantum numbers in quantum materials that defy standard theoretical…

In this review, we discuss the physics of spin-orbit coupled quantum gases in optical lattices. After reviewing some relevant experimental techniques, we introduce the basic theoretical model and discuss some of its generic features. In…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-09-02 Shizhong Zhang , William S. Cole , Arun Paramekanti , Nandini Trivedi

Algebraic spin liquids are quantum disordered phases of insulating magnets which exhibit fractionalized gapless excitations and power-law correlations. Quantum spin liquids in this category include the experimentally established 1D…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-09 Francesco Ferrari , Josef Willsher , Urban F. P. Seifert , Roser Valentí , Johannes Knolle

Quantum spin liquids (QSL) are phases of matter which are distinguished not by the symmetries they break, but rather by the patterns of entanglement within them. Although these entanglement properties have been widely discussed for ground…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-10 Snigdh Sabharwal , Matthias Gohlke , Paul Skrzypczyk , Nic Shannon

Numerous experiments on pyrochlore oxides Pr$_2$(Zr, Sn, Hf, Ir)$_2$O$_7$ with non-Kramers Pr$^{3+}$ ions suggest that they support a quantum spin liquid (QSL) ground state, but the precise nature of the QSL remains unclear. Quantum spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-15 Tony An , Félix Desrochers , Yong Baek Kim

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) represent a novel state where spins are highly entangled but do not order even at zero temperature due to strong quantum fluctuations. Such a state is mostly studied in Heisenberg models defined on geometrically…

Quantum spin liquids are long-range entangled states of matter with emergent gauge fields and fractionalized excitations. While candidate materials, such as the Kitaev honeycomb ruthenate $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$, show magnetic order at low…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-16 I. Rousochatzakis , S. Kourtis , J. Knolle , R. Moessner , N. B. Perkins

Quantum spin liquid (QSL) is a novel state of matter with exotic excitations and was theoretically predicted to be realized most possibly in an S=1/2 kagome antiferromagnet. Experimentally searching for the candidate materials is a big…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-15 Yuesheng Li , Bingying Pan , Shiyan Li , Wei Tong , Langsheng Ling , Zhaorong Yang , Junfeng Wang , Zhongjun Chen , Zhonghua Wu , Qingming Zhang

A quantum spin liquid is a novel ground state that can support long-range entanglement between magnetic moments, resulting in exotic spin excitations involving fractionalized $S=\frac{1}{2}$ spinons. Here, we measure the excitations in…

Electronic spins can form long-range entangled phases of condensed matter named quantum spin liquids. Their existence is conceptualized in models of two- or three-dimensional frustrated magnets that evade symmetry-breaking order down to…

We report the coherent coupling of two electron spins at a distance via virtual microwave photons. Each spin is trapped in a silicon double quantum dot at either end of a superconducting resonator, achieving spin-photon couplings up to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-13 Patrick Harvey-Collard , Jurgen Dijkema , Guoji Zheng , Amir Sammak , Giordano Scappucci , Lieven M. K. Vandersypen

We study in this paper quantum spin liquid states (QSLs) at the vicinity of metal-insulator transition. Assuming that the low energy excitations in the QSLs are labeled by "spinon" occupation numbers with the same Fermi surface structure as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-10-23 Yi Zhou , Tai-Kai Ng

We report that a possible Z2 quantum spin liquid (QSL) can be observed in a new class of frustrated system: spinor bosons subject to a pi flux in a square lattice. We construct a new class of Ginsburg-Landau (GL) type of effective action to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-12 Fadi Sun , Jinwu Ye

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) define an exotic class of quantum ground states where spins are disordered down to zero temperature. We propose routes to QSLs in kagome optical lattices using applied flux. An optical flux lattice can be applied…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-11-20 Hoi-Yin Hui , Mengsu Chen , Sumanta Tewari , V. W. Scarola

Actively shought since the turn of the century, two-dimensional quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are exotic phases of matter where magnetic moments remain disordered even at extremely low temperatures. Despite ongoing searches, QSLs remain…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-22 Juan Carrasquilla , Zhihao Hao , Roger G. Melko

One main theme in current condensed matter physics is the search of quantum spin liquid (QSL), an exotic magnetic state with strongly-fluctuating and highly-entangled spins down to zero temperature without static order. However, there is no…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-10 Chengpeng Tu , Dongzhe Dai , Xu Zhang , Chengcheng Zhao , Xiaobo Jin , Bin Gao , Tong Chen , Pengcheng Dai , Shiyan Li

The emergence of exotic quantum phenomena in frustrated magnets is rapidly driving the development of quantum many-body physics, raising fundamental questions on the nature of quantum phase transitions. Here we unveil the behaviour of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-29 Wen-Yuan Liu , Shou-Shu Gong , Wei-Qiang Chen , Zheng-Cheng Gu

Quantum spin liquid (QSL) has become an exciting topic in interacting spin systems that do not order magnetically down to the lowest experimentally accessible temperature; however, conclusive experimental evidence remains lacking. Motivated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-26 Saikat Banerjee , Wei Zhu , Shi-Zeng Lin