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We study the uniform $U(1)$ quantum spin liquid (QSL) with low-energy fermionic quasiparticles for pyrochlore magnets with dipolar-octupolar symmetry, employing a fermionic parton mean field theory approach. Self-consistent calculations…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-07 Krushna Chandra Sahu , Sambuddha Sanyal

Recently, a new class of three-dimensional spin liquid models have been theoretically discovered, which feature generalized Coulomb phases of emergent symmetric tensor $U(1)$ gauge theories. These "higher rank" tensor models are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-29 Abhinav Prem , Sagar Vijay , Yang-Zhi Chou , Michael Pretko , Rahul M. Nandkishore

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) represent a novel state of matter in which quantum fluctuations prevent conventional magnetic order from being established, and the spins remain disordered even at zero temperature. There have been many…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-11 Zhen Ma , Kejing Ran , Jinghui Wang , Song Bao , Zhengwei Cai , Shichao Li , Jinsheng Wen

We present a new mechanism for Raman scattering of phonons, which is based on the linear magnetoelastic coupling present in non-Kramers magnetic ions. This provides a direct coupling of Raman-active phonons to the magnet's quasiparticles.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-08-17 Arnab Seth , Subhro Bhattacharjee , Roderich Moessner

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) represent an exotic quantum many-body state characterized by the suppression of long-range magnetic order due to strong quantum fluctuations. The kagome spin-1/2 antiferromagnet (AFM) is a prime candidate for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-24 S. Suetsugu , T. Asaba , S. Ikemori , Y. Sekino , Y. Kasahara , K. Totsuka , B. Li , Y. Zhao , Y. Li , Y. Kohama , Y. Matsuda

We study the coupling between conventional (Maxwell) and emergent electrodynamics in quantum spin ice, a 3+1-dimensional $U(1)$ quantum spin liquid. We find that a uniform electric field can be used to tune the properties of both the ground…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-09-26 Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise , Subhro Bhattacharjee , Roderich Moessner

At sufficiently low temperatures, interacting electron systems tend to develop orders. Exceptions are quantum critical point (QCP) and quantum spin liquid (QSL), where fluctuations prevent the highly entangled quantum matter to an ordered…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-30 Yuan Da Liao , Xiao Yan Xu , Zi Yang Meng , Yang Qi

The kagome Heisenberg antiferromagnet formed by frustrated spins arranged in a lattice of corner-sharing triangles is a prime candidate for hosting a quantum spin liquid (QSL) ground state consisting of entangled spin singlets. But the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-09 Jiaming Wang , Weishi Yuan , Philip M. Singer , Rebecca W. Smaha , Wei He , Jiajia Wen , Young S. Lee , Takashi Imai

We here investigate the entanglement structure of the ground state of a (3+1)-dimensional U(1) quantum spin liquid, which is described by the deconfined phase of a compact U(1) gauge theory. A gapless photon is the only low-energy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-14 Michael Pretko , T. Senthil

Quantum spin liquids attract great interest due to their exceptional magnetic properties characterized by the absence of long-range order down to low temperatures despite the strong magnetic interaction. Commonly, these compounds are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-01 Martin Dressel , Andrej Pustogow

Spin correlations of the frustrated pyrochlore oxide Tb$_{2+x}$Ti$_{2-x}$O$_{7+y}$ have been investigated by using inelastic neutron scattering on single crystalline samples ($x=-0.007, 0.000,$ and $0.003$), which have the putative…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-08 Hiroaki Kadowaki , Mika Wakita , Björn Fåk , Jacques Ollivier , Seiko Ohira-Kawamura , Kenji Nakajima , Jeffrey W. Lynn

The interplay between spin frustration and charge fluctuation gives rise to an exotic quantum state in the intermediate-interaction regime of the half-filled triangular-lattice Hubbard model, while the nature of the state is under debate.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-05 Bin-Bin Chen , Ziyu Chen , Shou-Shu Gong , D. N. Sheng , Wei Li , Andreas Weichselbaum

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are exotic phases of matter characterized by long-range entanglement and the absence of magnetic order even at zero temperature. Here, we present a comprehensive theoretical study of the frustrated magnet…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-20 Yanpeng Zhou , Gang Li

The Ce$^{3+}$ pseudospin-$\frac{1}{2}$ degrees of freedom in the pyrochlore magnet Ce$_2$Zr$_2$O$_7$ are known to possess dipole-octupole (DO) character, making it a candidate for novel quantum spin liquid (QSL) ground states at low…

The properties and experimental identification of quantum spin liquids (QSLs) remain an important topic with many fundamental questions. Here, we explore the dynamics of a single charge dopant (hole) in a $t$-$J_{1}$-$J_{2}$ model on a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-26 J. H. Nyhegn , K. Knakkergaard Nielsen , G. M. Bruun

Spiral spin liquids possess a subextensively degenerate ground-state manifold, represented by a continuum of energy minima in reciprocal space. Since a small change of the spiral state wavevector requires a global change of the spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-28 Matías G. Gonzalez , Anna Fancelli , Han Yan , Johannes Reuther

We study a simple electron-phonon model on square and triangular versions of the Lieb-lattice using an asymptotically exact strong coupling analysis. At zero temperature and electron density $n = 1$ (one electron per unit cell), for various…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-05 Zhaoyu Han , Steven A. Kivelson

We use the projective symmetry group analysis to classify the quantum spin liquids on the $S=1/2$ pyrochlore magnet with a breathing anisotropy. We find 40 $\mathbb{Z}_2$ spin liquids and 16 $U(1)$ spin liquids that respect the $F\bar{4}3m$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-17 Li Ern Chern , Yong Baek Kim , Claudio Castelnovo

The interplay of electronic interactions and frustration in crystalline systems leads to a panoply of correlated phases, including exotic Mott insulators with non-trivial patterns of entanglement. Disorder introduces additional quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-03 Sunghoon Kim , Mohammad Saad , Dan Mao , Adhip Agarwala , Debanjan Chowdhury

Quantum spin liquids are phases of matter whose internal structure is not captured by a local order parameter. Particularly intriguing are critical spin liquids, where strongly interacting excitations control low energy properties. Here we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-08-05 Yi Zhang , Tarun Grover , Ashvin Vishwanath