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Quantum spin liquids may be considered "quantum disordered" ground states of spin systems, in which zero point fluctuations are so strong that they prevent conventional magnetic long range order. More interestingly, quantum spin liquids are…

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We classify and characterize three dimensional $U(1)$ quantum spin liquids (deconfined $U(1)$ gauge theories) with global symmetries. These spin liquids have an emergent gapless photon and emergent electric/magnetic excitations (which we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-23 Liujun Zou , Chong Wang , T. Senthil

We study the classical dipole-octupole pyrochlore spin systems in an external magnetic field along the $[111]$ direction. We identify an intermediate fragmented spin liquid phase that precedes full spin saturation, characterized by the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-23 Daniel Lozano-Gómez , Han Yan

We study the phase transition between the high temperature Coulomb phase and the low temperature staggered crystal phase in three dimensional classical O(N) spin-ice model. Compared with the previously proposed CP(1) formalism on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Cenke Xu

It has recently been shown that there exists a class of stable gapless spin liquids in 3+1 dimensions described by higher rank tensor U(1) gauge fields, giving rise to an emergent tensor electromagnetism. The tensor gauge field of these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-19 Michael Pretko

Quantum spin liquids are highly entangled ground states of quantum systems with emergent gauge structure, fractionalized spinon excitations, and other unusual properties. While these features clearly distinguish quantum spin liquids from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-06-18 Lucile Savary , Leon Balents

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

We introduce a novel geometrically frustrated classical Ising model, dubbed the "spin vorticity model", whose ground state manifold is a novel classical spin liquid, a "2-form Coulomb phase". We study the thermodynamics of this model both…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-17 Kristian Tyn Kai Chung , Michel J. P. Gingras

The forging of strong correlations on decreasing temperature can take place without the arousal of conventional order. If this happens, as in some geometrically frustrated magnets, disorder can be a phenomenon more interesting than order…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-31 D. Slobinsky , L. Pili , R. A. Borzi

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

Spin liquids are exotic quantum states characterized by the existence of fractional and deconfined quasiparticle excitations, referred to as spinons and visons. Their fractional nature establishes topological properties such as a protected…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-20 Jonas Sonnenschein , Johannes Reuther

We explore the physics of highly frustrated magnets in confined geometries, focusing on the Coulomb phase of pyrochlore spin ices. As a specific example, we investigate thin films of nearest-neighbor spin ice, using a combination of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-29 Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise , Jeffrey G. Rau , Michel J. P. Gingras

Quantum spin liquids are exotic phases of matter whose low-energy physics is described as the deconfined phase of an emergent gauge theory. With recent theory proposals and an experiment showing preliminary signs of $\mathbb{Z}_2$…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-04-14 Jeet Shah , Gautam Nambiar , Alexey V. Gorshkov , Victor Galitski

Pinch point singularities, associated with flat band magnetic excitations, are tell-tale signatures of Coulomb spin liquids. While their properties in the presence of quantum fluctuations have been widely studied, the fate of the…

Quantum spin liquids are long-range entangled phases whose magnetic correlations are determined by strong quantum fluctuations. While an overarching principle specifying the precise microscopic coupling scenarios for which quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-08 Nils Niggemann , Max Hering , Johannes Reuther

We give the details of the analysis for critical properties of spin-gap phases in one-dimensional lattice electron models. In the Tomonaga-Luttinger (TL) liquid theory, the spin-gap instability occurs when the backward scattering changes…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Masaaki Nakamura , Atsuhiro Kitazawa , Kiyohide Nomura

Although spin is a fundamental quantum number, measuring spin transport in traditional solid state systems is extremely challenging. This poses a major obstacle to detecting interesting quantum states including certain spin liquids. In this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-28 Ya-Hui Zhang , Ashvin Vishwanath

Emergent $U(1)$ gauge theories and artificial photons in frustrated magnets are outstanding examples of many-body collective phenomena. The classical and quantum regimes of these systems provide platforms for classical and quantum spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-26 Emily Z. Zhang , Finn Lasse Buessen , Yong Baek Kim

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…

At the theoretical level, quantum spin liquids are distinguished from other phases of matter by their entanglement properties. However, since the usual measure of entanglement, entanglement entropy, cannot accessed in experiment,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-20 Tokuro Shimokawa , Snigdh Sabharwal , Nic Shannon