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The Shastry-Sutherland model is an effective model of the layered material SrCu$_2$(BO$_3$)$_2$, which exhibits an extremely rich phase diagram as a function of pressure and magnetic field. Motivated by the recent controversy regarding its…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-12 Philippe Corboz , Yining Zhang , Boris Ponsioen , Frédéric Mila

In nucleus-nucleus collisions at relativistic energies a new kind of matter is created, the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). The phase diagram of such matter and the chemical freeze-out points will be presented in connection to the pseudo-critical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-27 Peter Braun-Munzinger , Anar Rustamov , Johanna Stachel

Recent experimental evidence for a field-induced quantum spin liquid (QSL) in $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$ calls for an understanding for the ground state of honeycomb Kitaev model under a magnetic field. In this work we address the nature of an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-04 Hong-Chen Jiang , Chang-Yan Wang , Biao Huang , Yuan-Ming Lu

Quantum spin liquids are exotic phases of matter that are prevented from being frozen even at zero temperature, and appear disordered by local probes that monitor the subsystems. Driven by quantum fluctuations, topological spin liquids are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-18 H. R. Kong , J. Taylor , Y. Dong , K. S. Choi

The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) realized in two-dimensional electron systems under a magnetic field is one of the most remarkable discoveries in condensed matter physics. Interestingly, it has been proposed that FQHE can also…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-16 Shou-Shu Gong , Wei Zhu , D. N. Sheng

Spin-liquid and spin-glass states represent two distinct phases of disordered quantum spin systems. These states are, in principle, distinguished by quantum-entangled fluctuations and spin freezing, but identifying each state and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-09 Shusei Wadashima , Yukitoshi Motome

The frustrated magnet $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$ constitutes a fascinating quantum material platform that harbors the intriguing Kitaev physics. However, a consensus on its intricate spin interactions and field-induced quantum phases has not been…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-16 Han Li , Hao-Kai Zhang , Jiucai Wang , Han-Qing Wu , Yuan Gao , Dai-Wei Qu , Zheng-Xin Liu , Shou-Shu Gong , Wei Li

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are fluid-like states of quantum spins where its long-range ordered state is destroyed by quantum fluctuations. The ground state of QSL and its exotic phenomena, which have been extensively discussed for decades,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-10-25 Minoru Yamashita , Takasada Shibauchi , Yuji Matsuda

The nontrivialness of quantum spin liquid (QSL) typically manifests in the non-local observables that signifies their existence, however, this fact actually casts shadow on detecting QSL with experimentally accessible probes. Here, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-22 Guang Yu Sun , Yan-Cheng Wang , Chen Fang , Yang Qi , Meng Cheng , Zi Yang Meng

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…

The Ce$^{3+}$ pseudospin-$\frac{1}{2}$ degrees of freedom in the pyrochlore magnet Ce$_2$Zr$_2$O$_7$ are known to possess dipole-octupole (DO) character, making it a candidate for novel quantum spin liquid (QSL) ground states at low…

Frustrated magnets such as spin ice exhibit Coulomb phases, where correlations have power-law forms at long distances. Applied perturbations can cause ordering transitions which cannot be described by the usual Landau paradigm, and are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-01-14 Stephen Powell

The dipolar-octupolar pyrochlore oxides R$_2$M$_2$O$_7$ (R=Ce, Sm, Nd) represent an important opportunity in the search for three dimensional Quantum Spin Liquid (QSL) ground states. Their low energy physics is governed by an alluringly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-15 Owen Benton

The Kagome-lattice-based material, Volborthite, $\mathrm{Cu_3 V_2 O_7 (OH)_2 \cdot 2 H_2 O}$, has been considered as a promising platform for discovery of unusual quantum ground states due to the frustrated nature of spin interactions. Here…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-19 Li Ern Chern , Kyusung Hwang , Tomonari Mizoguchi , Yejin Huh , Yong Baek Kim

We develop a non-perturbative "gauge Mean Field Theory" (gMFT) method to study a general effective spin-1/2 model for magnetism in rare earth pyrochlores. gMFT is based on a novel exact slave-particle formulation, and matches both the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-01-24 Lucile Savary , Leon Balents

Gauge theories are powerful tools in theoretical physics, allowing complex phenomena to be reduced to simple principles, and are used in both high-energy and condensed matter physics. In the latter context, gauge theories are becoming…

Quantum spin liquids are exotic states of matter that may be realized in frustrated quantum magnets and feature fractionalized excitations and emergent gauge fields. Here, we consider a gapless U(1) spin liquid with spinon Fermi pockets in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-25 Wilhelm G. F. Krüger , Lukas Janssen

The geometrically frustrated 3D pyrochlore lattice has been long predicted to host a quantum spin liquid, an intrinsic long-range entangled state with fractionalized excitations. To date, most proposals for pyrochlore materials have focused…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-11 Chunxiao Liu , Gábor B. Halász , Leon Balents

Spin liquids are highly correlated yet disordered states formed by the entanglement of magnetic dipoles$^1$. Theories typically define such states using gauge fields and deconfined quasiparticle excitations that emerge from a simple rule…

In this computational study, we explore a viable route to access the Kitaev-Quantum Spin Liquid (QSL) state in recently synthesized monolayer of a so-called spin-orbit assisted Mott insulator OsCl$_3$. In addition to other magnetic ground…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-14 Qiangqiang Gu , Shishir Kumar Pandey , Yihao Lin