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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 fluid-like states of quantum spins where its long-range ordered state is destroyed by quantum fluctuations. The ground state of QSL and its exotic phenomena, which have been extensively discussed for decades,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-10-25 Minoru Yamashita , Takasada Shibauchi , Yuji Matsuda

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are exotic phases with intrinsic massive entanglements. Instead of microscopic spins, fractionalized particles and gauge fluctuations are emergent, revealing QSLs' exotic natures. Quantum spins with strong…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-16 Sangjin Lee , Eun-Gook Moon

The existence of a quantum spin liquid (QSL) in which quantum fluctuations of spins are sufficiently strong to preclude spin ordering down to zero temperature was originally proposed theoretically more than 40 years ago, but its…

A quantum spin liquid (QSL) is an exotic state of matter in which electrons' spins are quantum entangled over long distances, but do not show symmetry-breaking magnetic order in the zero-temperature limit. The observation of QSL states is a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-03-08 J. A. M. Paddison , M. Daum , Z. L. Dun , G. Ehlers , Y. Liu , M. B. Stone , H. D. Zhou , M. Mourigal

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

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

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

A quantum spin liquid (QSL) is a state of matter where unpaired electrons' spins in a solid are quantum entangled, but do not show magnetic order in the zero-temperature limit. Because such a state may be important to the microscopic origin…

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 (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…

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

To reveal the nature of elementary excitations in a quantum spin liquid (QSL), we measured low temperature thermal conductivity and specific heat of 1T-TaS$_2$, a QSL candidate material with frustrated triangular lattice of spin-1/2. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-05 H. Murayama , Y. Sato , X. Z. Xing , T. Taniguchi , S. Kasahara , Y. Kasahara , M. Yoshida , Y. Iwasa , Y. Matsuda

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

Quantum materials exhibiting magnetic frustration are connected to diverse phenomena including high-Tc superconductivity, topological order and quantum spin liquids (QSLs). A QSL is a quantum phase (QP) related to a quantum-entangled…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-03 Samuel Mañas-Valero , Benjamin Huddart , Tom Lancaster , Eugenio Coronado , Francis Pratt

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 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

A quantum spin liquid (QSL) is a state of matter in which magnetic spins interact strongly, but quantum fluctuations inhibit long-range magnetic order even at zero temperature. A QSL has been predicted to have a host of exotic properties,…

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

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…

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