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The emergence of a quantum spin liquid (QSL), a state of matter that can result when electron spins are highly correlated but do not become ordered, has been the subject of a considerable body of research in condensed matter physics. Spin…

We present a comprehensive experimental investigation of the temperature evolution of magnetic states in triangular-lattice delafossite YbCuSe$_2$. Magnetization measurements on high-quality single crystals reveal easy-plane anisotropy.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-08 K. Bhattacharya , Y. Tokiwa , M. Majumder

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

The dynamical dimer structure factor is an observable probing spin-singlet excitations of quantum magnets distinct from those commonly studied by the spin structure factor. We report the dimer response for the extended spin-$1/2$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-29 Markus Drescher , Laurens Vanderstraeten , Roderich Moessner , Frank Pollmann , Johannes Knolle

The nature of the ground state of the spin $S=1/2$ Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the kagome lattice with breathing anisotropy (i.e., with different superexchange couplings $J_{\vartriangle}$ and $J_{\triangledown}$ within elementary up- and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-16 Yasir Iqbal , Didier Poilblanc , Ronny Thomale , Federico Becca

The $U(1)$ Dirac spin liquid might realize an exotic phase of matter whose low-energy properties are described by quantum electrodynamics in $2+1$ dimensions, where gapless modes exists but spinons and gauge fields are strongly coupled. Its…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-28 Sasank Budaraju , Alberto Parola , Yasir Iqbal , Federico Becca , Didier Poilblanc

We performed high-field magnetization, magnetocaloric effect (MCE), and NMR measurements on the Ising triangular-lattice antiferromagnet Rb$_2$Co(SeO$_3$)$_2$. The observations of the 1/3-magnetization plateau, the split NMR lines, and the…

We investigate the ground state and finite-temperature properties of the spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet on an infinite octa-kagome lattice by utilizing state-of-the-art tensor network-based numerical methods. It is shown that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-05-18 Cheng Peng , Shi-Ju Ran , Tao Liu , Xi Chen , Gang Su

Disordered magnetic states known as spin liquids are of paramount importance in both fundamental and applied science. A classical state of this kind was predicted for the Ising antiferromagnetic triangular model more than half a century…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-15 T. Arh , B. Sana , M. Pregelj , P. Khuntia , Z. Jagličić , M. D. Le , P. Biswas , A. Ozarowski , A. Zorko

The ground state of a molecular diamond-lattice compound (ET)Ag$_4$(CN)$_5$ is investigated by the magnetization and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. We found that the system exhibits antiferromagnetic long-range ordering with weak…

By using Gutzwiller projected fermionic wave functions and variational Monte Carlo technique, we study the spin-$1/2$ Heisenberg model with the first-neighbor ($J_1$), second-neighbor ($J_2$), and additional scalar chiral interaction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-07 Wen-Jun Hu , Shou-Shu Gong , D. N. Sheng

We revisit the challenging problem of identifying the quantum spin liquid candidate in the spin-1/2 $J_1$-$J_2$ Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the square lattice. By integrating the Gutzwiller-guided density matrix renormalization group…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-11 Hui-Ke Jin , Hong-Hao Tu , Ya-Hui Zhang

We report proximate quantum spin liquid behavior in K$_2$Co$_2$(SO$_4$)$_3$ with the magnetic Co$^{2+}$ ions embedded on a highly frustrated three-dimensional double trillium lattice. Single-crystal and high-resolution synchrotron powder…

We present the dynamical spin structure factor of the antiferromagnetic spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ $J_1-J_2$ Heisenberg model on a triangular lattice obtained from large-scale matrix-product state simulations. The high frustration due to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-11 Markus Drescher , Laurens Vanderstraeten , Roderich Moessner , Frank Pollmann

Specific heat ($C_V$) measurements in the spin-1/2 Cu$_2$(C$_2$H$_{12}$N$_2$)$_2$Cl$_4$ system under a magnetic field up to $H=8.25 T$ are reported and compared to the results of numerical calculations based on the 2-leg antiferromagnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Calemczuk , J. Riera , D. Poilblanc , J. -P. Boucher , G. Chaboussant , L. Levy , O. Piovesana

We study effects of nonmagnetic impurities in a spin-1/2 frustrated triangular antiferromagnet with the aim of understanding the observed broadening of $^{13}$C NMR lines in the organic spin liquid material $\kappa$-(ET)$_2$Cu$_2$(CN)$_3$.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Karol Gregor , Olexei I. Motrunich

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

We present the structural characterization and low-temperature magnetism of the triangular-lattice delafossite NaYbO$_2$. Synchrotron x-ray diffraction and neutron scattering exclude both structural disorder and crystal-electric-field…

High-quality single crystals of NaYbSe$_2$, which resembles a perfect triangular-lattice antiferromagnet without the intrinsic disorder, are investigated by magnetization and specific heat, as well as the local probe techniques nuclear…

The spin-$1/2$ Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the square-kagome (SK) lattice has attracted growing attention as a model system of highly frustrated quantum magnetism. A further motivation for theoretical studies comes from the recent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-22 Johannes Richter , Jürgen Schnack