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Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are intriguing phases of matter possessing fractionalized excitations. Several quasi-two dimensional materials have been proposed as candidate QSLs, but direct evidence for fractionalization in these systems is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-15 Yochai Werman , Shubhayu Chatterjee , Siddhardh C. Morampudi , Erez Berg

Quantum spin liquids~(QSLs) represent a unique quantum disordered state of matter that hosts long-range quantum entanglement and fractional excitations. However, structural disorder resulting from site mixing between different types of ions…

The search for quantum spin liquids (QSL) -- topological magnets with fractionalized excitations -- has been a central theme in condensed matter and materials physics. While theories are no longer in short supply, tracking down materials…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-11 Anish Bhardwaj , Shu Zhang , Han Yan , Roderich Moessner , Andriy H. Nevidomskyy , Hitesh J. Changlani

Quantum antiferromagnets on geometrically frustrated lattices have long attracted interest for the formation of quantum disordered states and the possible emergence of quantum spin liquid (QSL) ground states. Here we turn to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-21 Lasse Gresista , Ciarán Hickey , Simon Trebst , Yasir Iqbal

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are exotic states of matter characterized by emergent gauge structures and fractionalized elementary excitations. The recently discovered triangular lattice antiferromagnet YbMgGaO$_4$ is a promising QSL…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-04 Yao Shen , Yao-Dong Li , H. C. Walker , P. Steffens , M. Boehm , Xiaowen Zhang , Shoudong Shen , Hongliang Wo , Gang Chen , Jun Zhao

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) represent highly entangled states of matter in which frustration-induced quantum fluctuations suppress any symmetry-breaking phase transition down to absolute zero, giving rise to fractionalized excitations and…

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are long-range entangled states of quantum magnets which lie beyond the Landau paradigm of classifying phases of matter via broken symmetries. A physical route to arriving at QSLs is via frustration-induced…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-09-20 Ciarán Hickey , Lukasz Cincio , Zlatko Papić , Arun Paramekanti

Algebraic spin liquids are quantum disordered phases of insulating magnets which exhibit fractionalized gapless excitations and power-law correlations. Quantum spin liquids in this category include the experimentally established 1D…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-09 Francesco Ferrari , Josef Willsher , Urban F. P. Seifert , Roser Valentí , Johannes Knolle

Molecular spin systems are promising candidates for quantum information processing and nanoscale sensing, yet their characterization at room temperature remains challenging due to fast spin decoherence. In this work, we use $T_1$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Boning Li , Xufan Li , Yifan Quan , Avetik R Harutyunyan , Paola Cappellaro

The existence of a quantum spin liquid (QSL) in which quantum fluctuations of spins are sufficiently strong to preclude spin ordering down to zero temperature was originally proposed theoretically more than 40 years ago, but its…

Helical Luttinger liquids, appearing at the edge of two-dimensional topological insulators, represent a new paradigm of one-dimensional systems, where peculiar quantum phenomena can be investigated. Motivated by recent experiments on charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-17 Alessio Calzona , Matteo Carrega , Giacomo Dolcetto , Maura Sassetti

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

Spin relaxometry using solid-state spin defects, such as the diamond nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center, probes dynamical processes by measuring how environmental fluctuations enhance the spin relaxation rate. In the weak-coupling limit,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Ruotian Gong , Alex L. Melendez , Guanghui He , Zhongyuan Liu , Chong Zu , Huan Zhao

While a quantum spin liquid (QSL) phase has been identified in the $J_1$-$J_2$ Heisenberg model on a triangular lattice via numerical calculations, debate persists about whether or not such a QSL is gapped or gapless, with contradictory…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-08-25 Ta Tang , Brian Moritz , Thomas P. Devereaux

Quantum fluctuations originating phase competition or geometrical frustration of spins lead to novel states such as a quantum critical point and a quantum spin liquid where the strong quantum fluctuations suppress any ordered states even at…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-28 Y. Saito , H. Nakamura , M. Sawada , T. Yamazaki , S. Fukuoka , N. Matsunaga , K. Nomura , M. Dressel , A. Kawamoto

We study the quantum electrodynamics of Luttinger fermions with quadratic band-crossing dispersion in three dimensions. The model can be viewed as the low-energy effective theory of a putative $U(1)$ quantum spin liquid with fermionic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-22 Santanu Dey , Joseph Maciejko

Spin squeezed states provide a seminal example of how the structure of quantum mechanical correlations can be controlled to produce metrologically useful entanglement. Such squeezed states have been demonstrated in a wide variety of…

We introduce a solvable spin-rotational and time-reversal invariant spin-1 model in two dimensions. Depending on parameters, the ground state is an equal-weight superposition of all valence loops called "resonating valence loop" (RVL) or an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-12-22 Hong Yao , Liang Fu , Xiao-Liang Qi

We study the ground-state properties of the quantum spin liquid (QSL) phases of the spin-$1/2$ antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on the triangular lattice with nearest- ($J_1$), next-nearest- ($J_2$), and third-neighbor ($J_3$)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-10 Yi-Fan Jiang , Hong-Chen Jiang

The properties of the strongly interacting edge states of two dimensional topological insulators in the presence of two particle backscattering are investigated. We find an anomalous behavior of the density-density correlation functions,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-18 N. Traverso Ziani , F. Crépin , B. Trauzettel