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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…

A quantum spin liquid is a novel state of matter characterized by quantum entanglement and the absence of any broken symmetry. In condensed matter, the frustrated rare-earth pyrochlore magnets Ho$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$ and Dy$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-05 E. Kermarrec , J. Gaudet , K. Fritsch , R. Khasanov , Z. Guguchia , C. Ritter , K. A. Ross , H. A. Dabkowska , B. D. Gaulin

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

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) have become a key area of research in magnetism due to their remarkable properties, such as long-range entanglement, fractional excitations, pinch-point singularities, and topologically protected phenomena. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-23 M. G. Gonzalez , V. Noculak , A. Sharma , V. Favre , J-R. Soh , A. Magrez , R. Bewley , H. O. Jeschke , J. Reuther , H. M. Rønnow , Y. Iqbal , I. Živković

Pursuing fractionalized particles that do not bear properties of conventional measurable objects, exemplified by bare particles in the vacuum such as electrons and elementary excitations such as magnons, is a challenge in physics. Here we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-17 Yusuke Nomura , Masatoshi Imada

Topological states of matter such as quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are of great interest because of their remarkable predicted properties including protection of quantum information and the emergence of Majorana fermions. Such QSLs, however,…

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

The molecular triangular lattice system, beta'-EtMe3Sb[Pd(dmit)2]2, is considered as a candidate material for the quantum spin liquid (QSL) state, although ongoing debates arise from recent controversial results. Here, the results of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-05 Yugo Oshima , Yasuyuki Ishii , Francis L. Pratt , Isao Watanabe , Hitoshi Seo , Takao Tsumuraya , Tsuyoshi Miyazaki , Reizo Kato

Neutron scattering measurements on the pyrochlore magnet Ce$_2$Zr$_2$O$_7$ reveal an unusual crystal field splitting of its lowest $J$=5/2 multiplet, such that its ground state doublet is composed of m$_J$=$\pm$3/2, giving these doublets a…

The Coulombic quantum spin liquid in quantum spin ice is an exotic quantum phase of matter that emerges on the pyrochlore lattice and is currently actively searched for. Motivated by recent experiments on the Yb-based breathing pyrochlore…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-23 Lucile Savary , Xiaoqun Wang , Hae-Young Kee , Yong Baek Kim , Yue Yu , Gang Chen

In a quantum spin liquid, the magnetic moments of the constituent electron spins evade classical long-range order to form an exotic state that is quantum entangled and coherent over macroscopic length scales [1-2]. Such phases offer…

The dipolar-octupolar (DO) pyrochlores, R$_2$M$_2$O$_7$ (R = Ce, Sm, Nd), are key players in the search for realizable novel quantum spin liquid (QSL) states as a large parameter space within the DO pyrochlore phase diagram is theorized to…

We show that the highly frustrated transverse-field Ising model on the three-dimensional pyrochlore lattice realizes a first-order phase transition without symmetry breaking between the low-field Coulomb quantum spin liquid and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-23 J. Roechner , L. Balents , K. P. Schmidt

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 nontrivialness of quantum spin liquid (QSL) typically manifests in the non-local observables that signifies their existence, however, this fact actually casts shadow on detecting QSL with experimentally accessible probes. Here, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-22 Guang Yu Sun , Yan-Cheng Wang , Chen Fang , Yang Qi , Meng Cheng , Zi Yang Meng

Quantum spin liquids (QSL) are theoretical states of matter with long-range entanglement and exotic quasiparticles. However, they generally elude quantitative theory, rendering their underlying phases mysterious and hampering efforts to…

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

Continuum of spin excitations observed in inelastic neutron scattering experiments are often considered as a strong evidence of quantum spin liquid formation. When quantum spin liquid is indeed the ground state of a disorder-free magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-15 Jieming Sheng , Le Wang , Wenrui Jiang , Han Ge , Nan Zhao , Tiantian Li , Maiko Kofu , Dehong Yu , Wei Zhu , Jia-Wei Mei , Zhentao Wang , Liusuo Wu

Recently, the bi-layer Kagome lattice material Ca$_{10}$Cr$_7$O$_{28}$ has been shown to be a quasi-two-dimensional quantum spin liquid (QSL) where the frustration arises from a balance between competing ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-27 A. Balodhi , A. Ali , Yogesh Singh

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are topologically ordered exotic states of matter that host fractionalized excitations. Kitaev proposed a particular route towards a QSL via strongly bond-dependent interactions on the hexagonal lattice. A number…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-06 Xinshu Zhang , Yuanyuan Xu , T. Halloran , Ruidan Zhong , R. J. Cava , C. Broholm , N. Drichko , N. P. Armitage