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A quantum spin liquid is an exotic quantum state of matter in which spins are highly entangled and remain disordered down to zero temperature. Such a state of matter is potentially relevant to high-temperature superconductivity and…

Quantum spin liquids, exotic phases of matter with topological order, have been a major focus of explorations in physical science for the past several decades. Such phases feature long-range quantum entanglement that can potentially be…

Topological spin liquids are robust quantum states of matter with long-range entanglement and possess many exotic properties such as the fractional statistics of the elementary excitations. Yet these states, short of local parameters like…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-28 Yan-Cheng Wang , Chen Fang , Meng Cheng , Yang Qi , Zi Yang Meng

The interplay of electronic interactions and frustration in crystalline systems leads to a panoply of correlated phases, including exotic Mott insulators with non-trivial patterns of entanglement. Disorder introduces additional quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-03 Sunghoon Kim , Mohammad Saad , Dan Mao , Adhip Agarwala , Debanjan Chowdhury

This chapter is intended as a brief overview of some of the quantum spin liquid phases with unbroken SU(2) spin symmetry available in one dimension. The main characteristics of these phases are discussed by means of the bosonization…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Lecheminant

A quantum spin liquid (QSL) is an exotic insulating phase with emergent gauge fields and fractionalized excitations. However, the unambiguous demonstration of the existence of a QSL in a "non-engineered" microscopic model (or in any…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-01 Xun Cai , Zhaoyu Han , Zi-Xiang Li , Steven A. Kivelson , Hong Yao

Quantum spin liquids are long-range entangled phases whose magnetic correlations are determined by strong quantum fluctuations. While an overarching principle specifying the precise microscopic coupling scenarios for which quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-08 Nils Niggemann , Max Hering , Johannes Reuther

A quantum spin liquid (QSL) arises from a highly entangled superposition of many degenerate classical ground states in a frustrated magnet, and is characterized by emergent gauge fields and deconfined fractionalized excitations (spinons).…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-24 Bin Gao , Félix Desrochers , David W. Tam , Paul Steffens , Arno Hiess , Yixi Su , Sang-Wook Cheong , Yong Baek Kim , Pengcheng Dai

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…

This article is an introductory review of the physics of quantum spin liquid (QSL) states. Quantum magnetism is a rapidly evolving field, and recent developments reveal that the ground states and low-energy physics of frustrated spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-21 Yi Zhou , Kazushi Kanoda , Tai-Kai Ng

In this Chapter, we give a brief review of the state of the art of theoretical and experimental studies of quantum fluids of light. Such systems consist of ensembles of photons that acquire a finite mass from spatial confinement or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-22 Iacopo Carusotto

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

Quantum spin liquid (QSL) is an exotic quantum phase of matter whose ground state is quantum-mechanically entangled without any magnetic ordering. A central issue concerns emergent excitations that characterize QSLs, which are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-08 Y. Tokiwa , T. Yamashita , D. Terazawa , K. Kimura , Y. Kasahara , T. Onishi , Y. Kato , M. Halim , P. Gegenwart , T. Shibauchi , S. Nakatsuji , E. -G. Moon , Y. Matsuda

Quantum spin liquid has massive many spin entanglement in the ground state, we can evaluate it by the entanglement entropy, but the latter can not be observed directly by experiment. In this manuscript, we try to characterize its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Zheng-Chuan Wang

Spin liquid crystals are magnetic analogs of liquid crystals, possessing properties of both liquids and solids, a typical example of which are spin nematics. Spin nematics share many features with spin liquids, and the interplay between…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-06 Rico Pohle , Nic Shannon , Yukitoshi Motome

The double fractional quantum Hall system of spin 1/2 electrons is numerically studied to predict that there exists a novel spin-unpolarized quantum liquid specific to the multi-species system, which exemplifies a link between the spin…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 T. Nakajima , H. Aoki

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 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

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

Electrons have three quantized properties -- charge, spin, and Fermi statistics -- that are directly responsible for a vast array of phenomena. Here we show how these properties can be coherently and dynamically stripped from the electron…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-13 Maissam Barkeshli , Erez Berg , Steven Kivelson