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The "spin ice" state found in the rare earth pyrochlore magnets Ho2Ti2O7 and Dy2Ti2O7 offers a beautiful realisation of classical magnetostatics, complete with magnetic monopole excitations. It has been suggested that in "quantum spin ice"…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-04 Owen Benton , Olga Sikora , Nic Shannon

The magnetic excitations of the quasi-2D spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet on an anisotropic triangular lattice Cs2CuCl4 are explored throughout the 2D Brillouin zone using inelastic neutron scattering. In the spin liquid phase above the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-09-29 R. Coldea , D. A. Tennant , Z. Tylczynski

Recent studies have revealed that the randomness-induced quantum spin liquid (QSL)-like state is stabilized in certain frustrated quantum magnets in two and three dimensions. In order to clarify the nature of this gapless QSL-like state, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-24 Kazuki Uematsu , Toshiya Hikihara , Hikaru Kawamura

Rare-earth triangular-lattice magnets serve as an excellent platform for investigating exotic quantum magnetic phenomena. Recently, the hexaaluminate \cmao\ has been proposed to host a $U(1)$ Dirac quantum spin liquid state with dominant…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-16 Yantao Cao , Huanpeng Bu , Toni Shiroka , Helen C. Walker , Zhendong Fu , Zhaoming Tian , Jinkui Zhao , Hanjie Guo

We present an experimental study of the quantum spin ice candidate pyrochlore coumpound \przr\ by means of magnetization measurements, specific heat and neutron scattering up to 12 T and down to 60 mK. When the field is applied along the…

We demonstrate that the insulating one-band Hubbard model on the pyrochlore lattice contains, for realistic parameters, an extended quantum spin-liquid phase. This is a three-dimensional spin liquid formed from a highly degenerate manifold…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-28 B. Normand , Z. Nussinov

Quantum spin ice in pyrochlore lattice exemplifies three dimensional frustrated spin systems.In existing studies, Bose-Einstein condensation of bosonic spinons gives rise to magnetically ordered ground state.A truly liquid quantum spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-14 Imam Makhfudz

The experimental characterization of quantum spin liquids poses significant challenges due to the absence of long-range magnetic order, even at absolute zero temperature. The identification of these states of matter often relies on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-23 Valerio Peri , Shahal Ilani , Patrick A. Lee , Gil Refael

The standard approach to realize a spin liquid state is through magnetically frustrated states, relying on ingredients such as the lattice geometry, dimensionality, and magnetic interaction type of the spins. While Heisenberg spins on a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-10 Margarita G. Dronova , Vaclav Petricek , Zachary Morgan , Feng Ye , Daniel M. Silevitch , Yejun Feng

Although magnetically ordered at low temperatures, the spin-1/2 triangular antiferromagnet Cs_2CuCl_4 exhibits remarkable spin dynamics that strongly suggest proximity to a spin liquid phase. Here we address the question of whether a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Jason Alicea , Matthew P. A. Fisher

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

A quantum spin liquid is a novel ground state that can support long-range entanglement between magnetic moments, resulting in exotic spin excitations involving fractionalized $S=\frac{1}{2}$ spinons. Here, we measure the excitations in…

We investigate the emergence of quantum spin liquid phases in pyrochlore oxides with non-Kramers ions, in which structural randomness effectively acts as a transverse field, introducing quantum fluctuations on top of the spin ice manifold.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-09 Marcus V. Marinho , Eric C. Andrade

Quantum spin liquids are exotic quantum phases of matter that do not order even at zero temperature. While there are several toy models and simple Hamiltonians that could host a quantum spin liquid as their ground state, it is very rare to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-02 A. Kshetrimayum , C. Balz , B. Lake , J. Eisert

Dual-species arrays of ultracold neutral atoms have recently attracted increased interest due to the ability to independently control different atomic species and tune the interatomic interactions. This capability provides additional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Ahmed M. Farouk , Ilya I. Beterov , Ghadeer Suliman , Junxi Chen , Igor I. Ryabtsev

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

We report a $^{35}$Cl nuclear magnetic resonance study in the honeycomb lattice, $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$, a material that has been suggested to potentially realize a Kitaev quantum spin liquid (QSL) ground state. Our results provide direct…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-26 S. -H. Baek , S. -H. Do , K. -Y. Choi , Y. S. Kwon , A. U. B. Wolter , S. Nishimoto , Jeroen van den Brink , B. Büchner

Strongly enhanced quantum fluctuations often lead to a rich variety of quantum-disordered states. A representative case is liquid helium, in which zero-point vibrations of the helium atoms prevent its solidification at low temperatures. A…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-07 M. Shimozawa , K. Hashimoto , A. Ueda , Y. Suzuki , K. Sugii , S. Yamada , Y. Imai , R. Kobayashi , K. Itoh , S. Iguchi , M. Naka , S. Ishihara , H. Mori , T. Sasaki , M. Yamashita

The pursuit of quantum spin liquid (QSL) in the Kitaev honeycomb magnets has drawn intensive attention recently. In particular, $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$ has been widely recognized as a promising candidate for the Kitaev QSL. Although the compound…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-29 Han Li , Wei Li , Gang Su

Exotic quantum spin liquid (QSL) is formed with such hypothetic particles as fermionic spinons carrying spin 1/2 and no charge. Here we calculate its thermodynamic and relaxation properties. Our calculations unveil the fundamental…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-03-02 V. R. Shaginyan , A. Z. Msezane , K. G. Popov , G. S. Japaridze , V. A. Stephanovich