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Quantum spin liquids are a new class of magnetic ground state in which spins are quantum mechanically entangled over macroscopic scales. Motivated by recent advances in the control of polar molecules, we show that dipolar interactions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-23 Norman Y. Yao , Michael P. Zaletel , Dan M. Stamper-Kurn , Ashvin Vishwanath

A quantum spin liquid (QSL) is a novel phase of matter with long-range entanglement where localized spins are highly correlated with the vanishing of magnetic order. Such exotic quantum states provide the opportunities to develop new…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-21 Wen-Yuan Liu , Juraj Hasik , Shou-Shu Gong , Didier Poilblanc , Wei-Qiang Chen , Zheng-Cheng Gu

The spin ice materials, including Ho2Ti2O7 and Dy2Ti2O7, are rare earth pyrochlore magnets which, at low temperatures, enter a constrained paramagnetic state with an emergent gauge freedom. Remarkably, the spin ices provide one of very few…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-07-29 Michel J. P. Gingras , Paul A. McClarty

Quantum spin liquids have fascinated condensed matter physicists for decades because of their unusual properties such as spin fractionalization and long-range entanglement. Unlike conventional symmetry breaking the topological order…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-22 Maria Hermanns , Itamar Kimchi , Johannes Knolle

Much of modern condensed matter physics is understood in terms of elementary excitations, or quasiparticles - fundamental quanta of energy and momentum. Various strongly-interacting atomic systems are successfully treated as a collection of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-07-28 Matthew B. Stone , Igor A. Zaliznyak , Tao Hong , Collin L. Broholm , Daniel H. Reich

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

Actively shought since the turn of the century, two-dimensional quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are exotic phases of matter where magnetic moments remain disordered even at extremely low temperatures. Despite ongoing searches, QSLs remain…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-22 Juan Carrasquilla , Zhihao Hao , Roger G. Melko

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

On a lattice composed of triangular plaquettes where antiferromagnetic exchange interactions between localized spins cannot be simultaneously satisfied, the system becomes geometrically frustrated with magnetically disordered phases…

The emergent behavior of spin liquids that are born out of geometrical frustration makes them an intriguing state of matter. We show that in the quantum kagome antiferromagnet ZnCu$_3$(OH)$_6$SO$_4$ several different correlated, yet…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-02 M. Gomilsek , M. Klanjsek , M. Pregelj , F. C. Coomer , H. Luetkens , O. Zaharko , T. Fennell , Y. Li , Q. M. Zhang , A. Zorko

Quantum spin liquids are topological states of matter that arise in frustrated quantum magnets at low temperatures. At low energies, such states exhibit emergent gauge fields and fractionalized quasiparticles and can also possess enhanced…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-20 Vir B. Bulchandani , Benjamin Hsu , Christopher P. Herzog , S. L. Sondhi

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

Spin liquids are exotic phases of matter that often support emergent gauge fields and quasi-particle excitations. While spin liquids are commonly known for remaining disordered, their definition has been extended to include phases with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-28 E. Lhotel , L. D. C. Jaubert , P. C. W. Holdsworth

Quantum spin liquids attract great interest due to their exceptional magnetic properties characterized by the absence of long-range order down to low temperatures despite the strong magnetic interaction. Commonly, these compounds are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-01 Martin Dressel , Andrej Pustogow

Spin degrees of freedom of water molecule in gas and liquid state were investigated in order to provide a reasonable answer about the unsolved problem of a long-term behavior of water spin isomers. The approach used involves an assumption…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-24 V. K. Konyukhov

The cradle of quantum spin liquids, triangular antiferromagnets show strong proclivity to magnetic order and require deliberate tuning to stabilize a spin-liquid state. In this brief review, we juxtapose recent theoretical developments that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-13 Yuesheng Li , Philipp Gegenwart , Alexander A. Tsirlin

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

Ever since Heisenberg's proposal of a quantum-mechanical origin of ferromagnetism in 1928, the spin model named after him has been central to advances in magnetism, featuring in proposals of novel many-body states such as antiferromagnets,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-04-20 Andreas M. Läuchli , R. Moessner

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are long-range entangled states of quantum magnets which lie beyond the Landau paradigm of classifying phases of matter via broken symmetries. A physical route to arriving at QSLs is via frustration-induced…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-09-20 Ciarán Hickey , Lukasz Cincio , Zlatko Papić , Arun Paramekanti

Gapless fracton quantum spin liquids are exotic phases of matter described by higher-rank U(1) gauge theories which host gapped and immobile fracton matter excitations as well as gapless photons. Despite well-known field theories, no spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-12 Nils Niggemann , Meghadeepa Adhikary , Yannik Schaden-Thillmann , Johannes Reuther