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Electronic spins can form long-range entangled phases of condensed matter named quantum spin liquids. Their existence is conceptualized in models of two- or three-dimensional frustrated magnets that evade symmetry-breaking order down to…

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

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

Topological states of matter present a wide variety of striking new phenomena. Prominent among these is the fractionalisation of electrons into unusual particles: Majorana fermions [1], Laughlin quasiparticles [2] or magnetic monopoles [3].…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-26 J. Knolle , D. L. Kovrizhin , J. T. Chalker , R. Moessner

Spin-ordered states close to metal-insulator transitions are poorly understood theoretically and challenging to probe in experiments. Here, we propose that the quantum twisting microscope, which provides direct access to the energy-momentum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-11 Fabian Pichler , Wilhelm Kadow , Clemens Kuhlenkamp , Michael Knap

A quantum spin liquid (QSL) is a state of matter where unpaired electrons' spins in a solid are quantum entangled, but do not show magnetic order in the zero-temperature limit. Because such a state may be important to the microscopic origin…

Fractionalized excitations develop in many unusual many-body states such as quantum spin liquids, disordered phases that cannot be described using any local order parameter. Because these exotic excitations correspond to emergent degrees of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-17 Wen-Jun Hu , Yi Zhang , Andriy H. Nevidomskyy , Elbio Dagotto , Qimiao Si , Hsin-Hua Lai

Existence of spinons is the defining property of quantum spin liquids. These exotic excitations have (fractionalized) spin quantum number and no electric charge, and have been proposed to form Fermi surfaces in the recently discovered…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-11-20 Chui-Zhen Chen , Qing-feng Sun , Fa Wang , X. C. Xie

We study tunneling between two nearby cleaved edge quantum wires in a perpendicular magnetic field. Due to Coulomb forces between electrons, the wires form a strongly-interacting pair of Luttinger liquids. We calculate the low-temperature…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Carpentier , C. Peca , L. Balents

A novel method for detecting Luttinger-liquid behavior is proposed. The idea is to measure the tunneling conductance between a quantum wire and a parallel two-dimensional electron system as a function of both the potential difference…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Alexander Altland , C. H. W. Barnes , F. W. J. Hekking , A. J. Schofield

The Kitaev model belongs to an unconventional class of two-dimensional spin systems characterized by anisotropic, bond-dependent interactions that give rise to Quantum Spin Liquid (QSL) states. These exotic phases, marked by the absence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-29 A. R. Moura , L. V. Santos

Split-gate constrictions can be used to produce controllable scattering in a fractional quantum Hall state and constitute a very versatile model system for the investigation of non-Fermi physics in edge states. Controllable inter-edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-24 Stefano Roddaro , Vittorio Pellegrini , Fabio Beltram

High energy resolution spectroscopic studies of quantum magnets have proven to be extremely valuable in directly accessing magnetodynamics quantities, such as energy barriers, magnetic interactions, lifetime of excited states and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-17 Sascha Brinker , Felix Küster , Stuart S. P. Parkin , Paolo Sessi , Samir Lounis

A quantum spin liquid (QSL) arises from a highly entangled superposition of many degenerate classical ground states in a frustrated magnet, and is characterized by emergent gauge fields and deconfined fractionalized excitations (spinons).…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-24 Bin Gao , Félix Desrochers , David W. Tam , Paul Steffens , Arno Hiess , Yixi Su , Sang-Wook Cheong , Yong Baek Kim , Pengcheng Dai

Understanding the nature and behaviour of excitations in quantum spin liquids, and in topological phases of matter in general, is of fundamental importance and has proven crucial for experimental detection and characterisation of candidate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-07 Attila Szabó , Claudio Castelnovo

A quantum spin liquid is an exotic quantum state of matter in which spins are highly entangled and remain disordered down to zero temperature. Such a state of matter is potentially relevant to high-temperature superconductivity and…

We investigate tunneling between two spinful Tomonaga-Luttinger liquids (TLLs) realized, e.g., as two crossed nanowires or quantum Hall edge states. When injecting into each TLL one electron of opposite spin, the dc current measured after…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-05 Alexander Schroer , Bernd Braunecker , Alfredo Levy Yeyati , Patrik Recher

Interacting spins in quantum magnet can cooperate and exhibit exotic states like the quantum spin liquid. To explore the materialization of such intriguing states, the determination of effective spin Hamiltonian of the quantum magnet is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-01 Sizhuo Yu , Yuan Gao , Bin-Bin Chen , Wei Li

A quantum spin liquid hosts massive quantum entanglement whose identification is one of the most significant problems in physics. Yet, its detection is known to be notoriously difficult because of featureless properties without a symmetry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-17 Minsu Park , Masafumi Udagawa , Eun-Gook Moon

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