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We study the uniform time reversal invariant $U(1)$ quantum spin liquid (QSL) with low energy fermionic quasi-particles for rare earth pyrochlore magnets and explore its magnetic instability employing an augmented fermionic parton mean…

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Recent theoretical studies have found quantum spin liquid states with spinon Fermi surfaces upon the application of a magnetic field on a gapped state with topological order. We investigate the thermal Hall conductivity across this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-26 Yanting Teng , Yunchao Zhang , Rhine Samajdar , Mathias S. Scheurer , Subir Sachdev

We study fermionic quantum spin liquids (QSLs) on the three-dimensonal trillium lattice of corner-sharing triangles. We are motivated by recent experimental and theoretical investigations that have explored various classical and quantum…

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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…

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We design a lattice model of a "mixed" U(1) gauge field coupled to fermions with a flavor chemical potential and solve it with large-scale determinant quantum Monte Carlo simulations, For zero flavor chemical potential, the model realizes…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-15 Chuang Chen , Urban F. P. Seifert , Kexin Feng , Oleg A. Starykh , Leon Balents , Zi Yang Meng

The search for exotic quantum spin liquid states in simple yet realistic spin models remains a central challenge in the field of frustrated quantum magnetism. Here we consider the canonical nearest-neighbor kagome Heisenberg antiferromagnet…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-29 Amir M-Aghaei , Bela Bauer , Kirill Shtengel , Ryan V. Mishmash

We describe a new class of spin liquids with global SU(2) spin rotation symmetry in spin 1/2 systems on the triangular lattice, which have real Majorana fermion excitations carrying spin S = 1. The simplest translationally-invariant…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-06-30 Rudro R. Biswas , Liang Fu , Chris R. Laumann , Subir Sachdev

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect, where electrons with opposite spin channels are deflected to opposite sides of a two-dimensional system with a quantized conductance, was believed to be characterized by a nontrivial topological index…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-16 Lu Liu , Yuntian Liu , Jiayu Li , Hua Wu , Qihang Liu

The interplay between topology and strong interactions gives rise to a variety of exotic quantum phases, including fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states and their lattice analogs - fractional Chern insulators (FCIs). Such topologically…

Quantum spin liquid represents an intriguing state where electron spins are highly entangled yet spin fluctuation persists even at 0 K. Recently, the hexaaluminates \textit{R}MgAl$_{11}$O$_{19}$ (\textit{R} = rare earth) have been proposed…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-01 Yantao Cao , Akihiro Koda , M. D. Le , V. Pomjakushin , Benqiong Liu , Zhendong Fu , Zhiwei Li , Jinkui Zhao , Zhaoming Tian , Hanjie Guo

We investigate Fermi liquid states of the ultra-cold magnetic dipolar Fermi gases in the simplest two-component case including both thermodynamic instabilities and collective excitations. The magnetic dipolar interaction is invariant under…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-05-29 Yi Li , Congjun Wu

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

Frustrated magnets can elude the paradigm of conventional symmetry breaking and instead exhibit signatures of emergent symmetries at low temperatures. Such symmetries arise from "accidental" degeneracies within the ground state manifold and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-25 Sagar Ramchandani , Simon Trebst , Ciarán Hickey

Thermal signatures of fractionalized excitations are a fingerprint of quantum spin liquids (QSLs). In the $J_{eff}=1/2$ honeycomb magnet $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$, a QSL state emerges upon applying an in-plane magnetic field $H_{||}$ greater than…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-01 J. A. N. Bruin , R. R. Claus , Y. Matsumoto , N. Kurita , H. Tanaka , H. Takagi

There is considerable experimental evidence for the existence in Quantum Hall systems of an approximate emergent discrete symmetry, $\Gamma_0(2) \subset SL(2,Z)$. The evidence consists of the robustness of the tests of a suite a predictions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. P. Burgess , B. P. Dolan

A key characteristic of quantum spin liquids(QSL) is the presence of fractional excitations related to their entanglement properties, yet experimental verification of their statistics is missing. For example, in the potential Kitaev spin…

Recent experiments on the dipolar-octupolar pyrochlore compound Ce$_2$Zr$_2$O$_7$ indicate that it may realize a three-dimensional quantum spin liquid (QSL). In particular, the analyses of available data suggest that the system is in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-30 Félix Desrochers , Li Ern Chern , Yong Baek Kim

The Kitaev quantum spin liquid (QSL) on the two-dimensional honeycomb lattice epitomizes an entangled topological state, where the spins fractionalize into Majorana fermions. This state has aroused tremendous interest because it harbors…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-12 S. Suetsugu , Y. Ukai , M. Shimomura , M. Kamimura , T. Asaba , Y. Kasahara , N. Kurita , H. Tanaka , T. Shibauchi , J. Nasu , Y. Motome , Y. Matsuda

The paradigm of Landau's Fermi liquid theory has been challenged with the finding of a strongly interacting Fermi liquid that cannot be adiabatically connected to a non-interacting system. A spin-1 two-channel Kondo impurity with anisotropy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-17 R. Žitko , G. G. Blesio , L. O. Manuel , A. A. Aligia

Triangular lattice quantum antiferromagnet has recently emerged to be a promising playground for realizing Dirac spin liquids (DSLs) -- a class of highly entangled quantum phases hosting emergent gauge fields and gapless Dirac fermions.…

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