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The complex interplay between charge and spin dynamics lies at the heart of strongly correlated quantum materials, and it is a fundamental topic in basic research with far reaching technological perspectives. We explore in this paper the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-09 Jens H. Nyhegn , Kristian Knakkergaard Nielsen , Leon Balents , Georg M. Bruun

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…

Chiral spin liquid (CSL) is a magnetic analogue of the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) liquid. Collective excitations play a vital role in shaping our understanding of these exotic quantum phases of matter and their quantum phase transitions.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-14 Hongyu Lu , Wei Zhu , Wang Yao

The nature of the zero-temperature phase diagram of the spin-$1/2$ $J_1$-$J_2$ Heisenberg model on a square lattice has been debated in the past three decades, which may hold the key to understand high temperature superconductivity. By…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-01 Wen-Yuan Liu , Shou-Shu Gong , Yu-Bin Li , Didier Poilblanc , Wei-Qiang Chen , Zheng-Cheng Gu

We study the spin-$1/2$ Heisenberg model on the square lattice with the first and second nearest-neighbor antiferromagnetic couplings $J_1$, $J_2$, as well as the three-spin scalar chiral coupling $J_{\chi}$. Using density matrix…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-27 Xiao-Tian Zhang , Yixuan Huang , Han-Qing Wu , D. N. Sheng , Shou-Shu Gong

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,…

We study the spin-$1/2$ two-dimensional Shastry-Sutherland spin model by exact diagonalization of clusters with periodic boundary conditions. We develop an improved level spectroscopic technique using energy gaps between states with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-13 Ling Wang , Yalei Zhang , Anders W. Sandvik

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) form an extremely unusual magnetic state in which the spins are highly correlated and fluctuate coherently down to the lowest temperatures, but without symmetry breaking and without the formation of any static…

While many-body systems can host long-ranged entangled quantum spin liquids (QSLs), the ingredients for realizing these as ground states can be prohibitively difficult. In many circumstances, one requires (i) a constrained Hilbert space and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-14 Rahul Sahay , Ashvin Vishwanath , Ruben Verresen

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) host emergent, fractionalized fermionic excitations that are charge-neutral. Identifying clear experimental signatures of these excitations remains a central challenge in the field of strongly correlated systems,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-04 Penghao Zhu , Archisman Panigrahi , Leonid Levitov , Nandini Trivedi

We report a comprehensive investigation of the magnetism of the $S$ = 3/2 triangular-lattice antiferromagnet, $\alpha$-CrOOH(D) (delafossites green-grey powder). The nearly Heisenberg antiferromagnetic Hamiltonian ($J_1$ $\sim$ 23.5 K) with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-04 Jiabin Liu , Benqiong Liu , Long Yuan , Boqiang Li , Lei Xie , Xiping Chen , Hongxia Zhang , Daye Xu , Wei Tong , Jinchen Wang , Yuesheng Li

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) represent exotic states of matter where quantum spins interact strongly yet evade long-range magnetic order down to absolute zero. Characterized by non-local quantum entanglement and resultant fractionalized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-05 Yuji Matsuda , Takasada Shibauchi , Hae-Young Kee

At sufficiently low temperatures, interacting electron systems tend to develop orders. Exceptions are quantum critical point (QCP) and quantum spin liquid (QSL), where fluctuations prevent the highly entangled quantum matter to an ordered…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-30 Yuan Da Liao , Xiao Yan Xu , Zi Yang Meng , Yang Qi

Previous studies of the $S=1/2$ triangular-lattice $J_1$--$J_2$ Heisenberg antiferromagnet have inferred the existence of a non-magnetic ground-state phase for an intermediate range of $J_2$, but disagree concerning whether it is a gapped…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-17 Shengtao Jiang , Steven R. White , Steven A. Kivelson , Hong-Chen Jiang

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 liquids (QSL) have generated considerable excitement as phases of matter with emergent gauge structures and fractionalized excitations. In this context, phase transitions out of QSLs have been widely discussed as Higgs…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-15 Hyeok-Jun Yang , Nic Shannon , SungBin Lee

Quantum spin liquid (QSL), a state characterized by exotic low energy fractionalized excitations and statistics is still elusive experimentally and may be gauged via indirect experimental signatures. Remnant of QSL phase may reflect in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-29 Vivek Kumar , Deepu Kumar , Birender Singh , Yuliia Shemerliuk , Mahdi Behnami , Bernd Buchner , Saicharan Aswartham , Pradeep Kumar

The quantum spin liquid (QSL) state has been searched intensively in Kitaev-like materials, such as the Iridium oxides $A_2$IrO$_3$ and $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$. The half-filled Kitaev-Hubbard model with bond dependent hopping terms is used to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-06 Shaojun Dong , Hao Zhang , Chao Wang , Meng Zhang , Yong-Jian Han , Lixin He

We study the quantum phase diagram of the spin-$1/2$ Heisenberg model on the kagom\'e lattice with first-, second-, and third-neighbor interactions $J_1$, $J_2$, and $J_3$ by means of density matrix renormalization group. For small $J_2$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-04-23 Shou-Shu Gong , Wei Zhu , Leon Balents , D. N. Sheng

The quantum spin liquid (QSL) is an exotic phase of magnetic materials where the spins continue to fluctuate without any symmetry breaking down to zero temperature. Among the handful reports of QSL with spin $S\ge$1, examples with magnetic…