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Spin-$1/2$ kagome antiferromagnets are leading candidates for realizing quantum spin liquid (QSL) ground states. While QSL ground states are predicted for the pure Heisenberg model, understanding the robustness of the QSL to additional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-16 Shengtao Jiang , Arthur C. Campello , Wei He , Jiajia Wen , Daniel M. Pajerowski , Young S. Lee , Hong-Chen Jiang

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…

The pyrochlore materials have long been predicted to harbor a quantum spin liquid, an intrinsic long-range-entangled state supporting fractionalized excitations. Existing pyrochlore experiments, on the other hand, have discovered several…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-19 Chunxiao Liu , Gábor B. Halász , Leon Balents

As one of the most intriguing states of matter, the chiral spin liquid (CSL) has attracted much scientific interest while its existence and mechanism in crystalline strongly correlated systems remain hotly debated. On the other hand, strong…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-04-09 Yixuan Huang , D. N. Sheng , Jian-Xin Zhu

We investigate the possibility of exotic phenomena, viz. quantum spin liquid (QSL) or deconfined quantum critical point (DQCP), in the spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ Heisenberg model on the maple-leaf lattice, a geometrically frustrated system formed…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-18 Pratyay Ghosh

Motivated by the recent realization of an artificial quantum spin ice in an array of superconducting qubits with tunable parameters [King {\it et al.}, Science 373, 576 (2021)], we scrutinize a quantum six vertex model on the square lattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-01 Márk Kondákor , Karlo Penc

Pursuing fractionalized particles that do not bear properties of conventional measurable objects, exemplified by bare particles in the vacuum such as electrons and elementary excitations such as magnons, is a challenge in physics. Here we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-17 Yusuke Nomura , Masatoshi Imada

We found a plateau in the magnitude of the isolated magnetic moments as a function of the anisotropy of the transfer integral (t'/t) in the gapless quantum spin liquid (QSL) phase of an S=1/2 triangular lattice molecular solid X[Pd(dmit)2]2…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-20 K. Ueda , S. Fujiyama , R. Kato

Quantum spin liquids (QSL) are phases of matter which are distinguished not by the symmetries they break, but rather by the patterns of entanglement within them. Although these entanglement properties have been widely discussed for ground…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-10 Snigdh Sabharwal , Matthias Gohlke , Paul Skrzypczyk , Nic Shannon

In a quantum spin liquid, the magnetic moments of the constituent electron spins evade classical long-range order to form an exotic state that is quantum entangled and coherent over macroscopic length scales [1-2]. Such phases offer…

Quantum fluctuations enhanced by frustration and subtle interplay between competing degrees of freedom offer an ideal ground to realize novel states with fractional quantum numbers in quantum materials that defy standard theoretical…

Classical spin liquids (CSLs) are intriguing states of matter that do not exhibit long-range magnetic order and are characterized by an extensive ground-state degeneracy. Adding quantum fluctuations, which induce dynamics between these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-12 Duyu Chen , Rhine Samajdar , Yang Jiao , Salvatore Torquato

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

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

The emergence of exotic quantum phenomena in frustrated magnets is rapidly driving the development of quantum many-body physics, raising fundamental questions on the nature of quantum phase transitions. Here we unveil the behaviour of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-29 Wen-Yuan Liu , Shou-Shu Gong , Wei-Qiang Chen , Zheng-Cheng Gu

Topological phases of spin liquids with constrained disorder can host a kinetics of fractionalized excitations. However, spin-liquid phases with distinct kinetic regimes have proven difficult to observe experimentally. Here we present a…

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) host exotic fractionalized magnetic and gauge-field excitations whose microscopic origins and experimental verification remain frustratingly elusive. In the absence of static magnetic order, the spin excitation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-31 Jiahang Hu , Runze Chi , Yibin Guo , B. Normand , Hai-Jun Liao , T. Xiang

Exotic quantum spin liquid (QSL) is formed with such hypothetic particles as fermionic spinons carrying spin 1/2 and no charge. Here we calculate its thermodynamic and relaxation properties. Our calculations unveil the fundamental…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-03-02 V. R. Shaginyan , A. Z. Msezane , K. G. Popov , G. S. Japaridze , V. A. Stephanovich

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

Quantum Spin Liquids (QSLs) are phases of interacting spins that do not order even at the absolute zero temperature, making it impossible to characterize them by a local order parameter. In this article, we review the unique view provided…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-02-06 Tarun Grover , Yi Zhang , Ashvin Vishwanath