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We report gapless quantum spin liquid behavior in the layered triangular Sr$_{3}$CuSb$_{2}$O$_{9}$ (SCSO) system. X-ray diffraction shows superlattice reflections associated with atomic site ordering into triangular Cu planes well-separated…

The rare-earth-based geometrically frustrated triangular magnets have attracted considerable attention due to the intricate interplay between strong spin-orbit coupling and the crystal electric field (CEF), which often leads to effective…

Based on the recent experiments on the triangular lattice antiferromagnet Na$_2$BaCo(PO$_4$)$_2$, we propose the easy-axis XXZ spin-1/2 model on the triangular lattice, that exhibits a quantum spin supersolid, to be a precursory Dirac spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-19 Haichen Jia , Bowen Ma , Zidan Wang , Gang 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

The three-dimensional frustrated spin lattice in MgCrGaO4, where Cr3+ ions occupy a pyrochlore-like network, exemplifies a quantum magnet with competing interactions, macroscopic degeneracy, and exotic low-energy excitations. Using…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-17 U. Jena , S. Kundu , Suheon Lee , Q. Faure , F. Damay , S. Rols , Adam Berlie , S. Petit , Kwang-Yong Choi , P. Khuntia

A spin-1/2 triangular-lattice antiferromagnet is a prototypical frustrated quantum magnet, which exhibits remarkable quantum many-body effects that arise from the synergy between geometric spin frustration and quantum fluctuations. It can…

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

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) represent a novel state where spins are highly entangled but do not order even at zero temperature due to strong quantum fluctuations. Such a state is mostly studied in Heisenberg models defined on geometrically…

Neutron scattering experiments on a polycrystalline sample of the frustrated pyrochlore magnet Tb2Ti2O7, which does not show any magnetic order down to 50 mK, have revealed that it shows condensation behavior below 0.4 K from a thermally…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-12-13 Hiroshi Takatsu , Hiroaki Kadowaki , Taku J. Sato , Jeffrey W. Lynn , Yoshikazu Tabata , Teruo Yamazaki , Kazuyuki Matsuhira

Quantum spin liquid (QSL) represents a new class of condensed matter states characterized by the long-range many-body entanglement of topological orders. The most prominent feature of the elusive QSL state is the existence of fractionalized…

Na4Ir3O8 is a unique case of a hyperkagome 3D corner sharing triangular lattice which can be decorated with quantum spins. It has spurred a lot of theoretical interest as a spin liquid candidate. We present a comprehensive set of NMR data…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-29 A. C. Shockley , F. Bert , J-C Orain , Y. Okamoto , P. Mendels

Quantum materials exhibiting magnetic frustration are connected to diverse phenomena including high-Tc superconductivity, topological order and quantum spin liquids (QSLs). A QSL is a quantum phase (QP) related to a quantum-entangled…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-03 Samuel Mañas-Valero , Benjamin Huddart , Tom Lancaster , Eugenio Coronado , Francis Pratt

A weak magnetic order was found in a non-superconducting bilayered-hydrate Na$_{x}$CoO$_{2}\cdot y$H$_{2}$O sample by a Co Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance (NQR) measurement. The nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate divided by temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Ihara , K. Ishida , C. Michioka , M. Kato , K. Yoshimura , K. Takada , T. Sasaki , H. Sakurai , E. Takayama-Muromachi

$\rm{Sr_2CuTe_{0.5}W_{0.5}O_6}$ is a square-lattice magnet with super-exchange between S=1/2 $\rm{Cu^{2+}}$ spins mediated by randomly distributed Te and W ions. Here, using sub-K temperature and 20 $\rm{\mu}$eV energy resolution neutron…

Triangular lattice of rare-earth ions with interacting effective spin-$1/2$ local moments is an ideal platform to explore the physics of quantum spin liquids (QSLs) in the presence of strong spin-orbit coupling, crystal electric fields, and…

The delafossite-like compound NaYbO$_2$ hosts a triangular lattice of Yb$^{3+}$ moments and is a promising candidate for the realization of a quantum spin liquid ground state -- an exotic, quantum-disordered magnetic phase featuring…

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

Quantum spin liquids are materials that feature quantum entangled spin correlations and avoid magnetic long-range order at T = 0 K. Particularly interesting are two-dimensional honeycomb spin lattices where a plethora of exotic quantum spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-20 C. Wessler , B. Roessli , K. W. Krämer , B. Delley , O. Waldmann , L. Keller , D. Cheptiakov , H. B. Braun , M. Kenzelmann

We study spin liquid in the frustrated diamond lattice antiferromagnet CoAl2O4 by means of single crystal neutron scattering in zero and applied magnetic field. The magnetically ordered phase appearing below TN=8 K remains nonconventional…

The family of rare earth chalcogenides $ARECh_{2}$ (A = alkali or monovalent ions, RE = rare earth, and Ch = O, S, Se, and Te) appears as an inspiring playground for studying quantum spin liquids (QSL). The crucial low-energy spin dynamics…