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The suppression of magnetic order and the detection of a half-quantized thermal Hall effect in {\alpha}-RuCl3 under an external magnetic field have sparked significant debate, whether these phenomena point to spin fractionalization, as…

An external magnetic field can induce a transition in $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$ from an ordered zigzag state to a disordered state that is possibly related to the Kitaev quantum spin liquid. Here we present new field dependent inelastic neutron…

Frustrated quantum magnets are expected to host many exotic quantum spin states like quantum spin liquid (QSL), and have attracted numerous interest in modern condensed matter physics. The discovery of the triangular lattice spin liquid…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-02 Weiwei Liu , Zheng Zhang , Jianting Ji , Yixuan Liu , Jianshu Li , Xiaoqun Wang , Hechang Lei , Gang Chen , Qingming Zhang

The search for the experimental evidence of quantum spin liquid (QSL) states is critical but extremely challenging, as the quenched interaction randomness introduced by structural imperfection is usually inevitable in real materials.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-08 Fangjun Lu , Long Yuan , Jian Zhang , Boqiang Li , Yongkang Luo , Yuesheng Li

The present studies show that long-range magnetic order takes place in RuBr$_3$ at $\approx$ 34 K. The observations of clear oscillations in the muon time spectra demonstrate the presence of well-defined internal fields at the muon sites.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-27 T. Weinhold , C. Wang , F. Seewald , V. Grinenko , Y. Imai , F. Sato , K. Ohgushi , H. -H. Klauss , R. Sarkar

Frustrated magnetic systems exhibit many fascinating phases. Prime among them are quantum spin liquids, where the magnetic moments do not order even at zero temperature. A subclass of quantum spin liquids called Kitaev spin liquids are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-10 Masahiko G. Yamada , Vatsal Dwivedi , Maria Hermanns

PbCuTe2O6 is a rare example of a spin liquid candidate featuring a three dimensional magnetic lattice. Strong geometric frustration arises from the dominant antiferromagnetic interaction which generates a hyperkagome network of Cu2+ ions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-14 P. Khuntia , F. Bert , P. Mendels , B. Koteswararao , A. V. Mahajan , M. Baenitz , F. C. Chou , C. Baines , A. Amato , Y. Furukawa

Quantum spin liquid represents an intriguing state where electron spins are highly entangled yet spin fluctuation persists even at 0 K. Recently, the hexaaluminates \textit{R}MgAl$_{11}$O$_{19}$ (\textit{R} = rare earth) have been proposed…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-01 Yantao Cao , Akihiro Koda , M. D. Le , V. Pomjakushin , Benqiong Liu , Zhendong Fu , Zhiwei Li , Jinkui Zhao , Zhaoming Tian , Hanjie Guo

$\alpha$-RuCl$_{3}$ is a major candidate for the realization of the Kitaev quantum spin liquid, but its zigzag antiferromagnetic order at low temperatures indicates deviations from the Kitaev model. We have quantified the spin Hamiltonian…

Frustrated magnets with strong spin-orbit coupling promise to host topological states of matter, with fractionalized excitations and emergent gauge fields. Kitaev's proposal for a honeycomb-lattice Majorana spin liquid has triggered an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-19 P. Lampen-Kelley , L. Janssen , E. C. Andrade , S. Rachel , J. -Q. Yan , C. Balz , D. G. Mandrus , S. E. Nagler , M. Vojta

We found a plateau in the magnitude of the isolated magnetic moments as a function of the anisotropy of the transfer integral (t'/t) in the gapless quantum spin liquid (QSL) phase of an S=1/2 triangular lattice molecular solid X[Pd(dmit)2]2…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-20 K. Ueda , S. Fujiyama , R. Kato

Many-body entanglement properties of quantum spin liquids (QSLs), persisting at arbitrarily long distances, have been intensely explored over the past two decades, but mostly for QSLs viewed as {\em closed} quantum systems. However, in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-23 Federico Garcia-Gaitan , Branislav K. Nikolic

Quantum spin liquids are an exciting playground for exotic physical phenomena and emergent many-body quantum states. The realization and discovery of quantum spin liquid candidate materials and associated phenomena lie at the intersection…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-16 J. R. Chamorro , T. T. Tran , T. M. McQueen

The ruthenium halide $\alpha$-RuCl$_{3}$ is a promising candidate for a Kitaev spin liquid. However, the microscopic model describing $\alpha$-RuCl$_{3}$ is still debated partly because of a lack of analogue materials for…

PbCuTe$_2$O$_6$ is considered as one of the rare candidate materials for a three-dimensional quantum spin liquid (QSL). This assessment was based on the results of various magnetic experiments, performed mainly on polycrystalline material.…

Quantum spin liquids, a highly topologically entangled, dynamically correlated state where quantum fluctuations preclude any long-range ordering down to absolute zero. In the search for a topologically robust qubit, the scientific community…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-11 Vivek Kumar , Pradeep Kumar

The frustrated magnet $\alpha$-RuCl3 is one of the prime candidates for realizing a Kitaev quantum spin liquid (QSL). However, the existence of a field-induced intermediate QSL phase in this material remains under debate. Here, we employ…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-07 Xuan Zou , Shuo Liu , Wenan Guo , Hong Yao

A quantum spin liquid (QSL) is an exotic state of matter characterized by quantum entanglement and the absence of any broken symmetry. A long-standing open problem, which is a key for fundamental understanding the mysterious QSL states, is…

The two-dimensional (2D) spin-1/2 kagome Heisenberg antiferromagnet is believed to host quantum spin liquid (QSL) states with no magnetic order, but its ground state remains largely elusive. An important outstanding question concerns the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-30 S. Suetsugu , T. Asaba , Y. Kasahara , Y. Kohsaka , K. Totsuka , B. Li , Y. Zhao , Y. Li , M. Tokunaga , Y. Matsuda

The vacancy effect in quantum spin liquid (QSL) has been extensively studied. A finite density of random vacancies in the Kitaev model can lead to a pileup of low-energy density of states (DOS), which is generally experimentally determined…