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The identification of fractionalized excitations in quantum spin liquids (QSLs) remains a central challenge in condensed matter physics. In dipolar-octupolar (DO) pyrochlores, such as $\text{Ce}_2\text{Zr}_2\text{O}_7$, the candidate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-07 Bin Gao , Zhengbang Zhou , Tingjun Zhang , Andrey Podlesnyak , Sang-Wook Cheong , Yong Baek Kim , Pengcheng Dai

A new quantum approach is presented that can account for the description of small ferromagnetic particles magnetization tunneling. An estimate of the saturation value of an external applied magnetic field along the easy axis is obtained. An…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Galetti , B. M. Pimentel , C. L. Lima , E. C. Silva

Unlike conventional magnets where the magnetic moments are partially or completely static in the ground state, in a quantum spin liquid they remain in collective motion down to the lowest temperatures. The importance of this state is that…

Quantum spin liquids are topological states of matter that arise in frustrated quantum magnets at low temperatures. At low energies, such states exhibit emergent gauge fields and fractionalized quasiparticles and can also possess enhanced…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-20 Vir B. Bulchandani , Benjamin Hsu , Christopher P. Herzog , S. L. Sondhi

A glance at recent research on magnetism turns up a curious set of articles discussing, or claiming evidence for, a state of matter called a quantum spin liquid (QSL). These articles are notable in their invocation of exotic notions of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-31 T. Lancaster

The double fractional quantum Hall system of spin 1/2 electrons is numerically studied to predict that there exists a novel spin-unpolarized quantum liquid specific to the multi-species system, which exemplifies a link between the spin…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 T. Nakajima , H. Aoki

Quantum spin liquids are highly entangled ground states of quantum systems with emergent gauge structure, fractionalized spinon excitations, and other unusual properties. While these features clearly distinguish quantum spin liquids from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-06-18 Lucile Savary , Leon Balents

Quantum materials exhibiting magnetic frustration are connected to diverse phenomena including high-Tc superconductivity, topological order and quantum spin liquids (QSLs). A QSL is a quantum phase (QP) related to a quantum-entangled…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-03 Samuel Mañas-Valero , Benjamin Huddart , Tom Lancaster , Eugenio Coronado , Francis Pratt

We propose a planar tunneling setup to probe vacancy-bound Majorana modes in the chiral Kitaev spin liquid. In this geometry, the inelastic tunneling conductance can be expressed directly in terms of real-space spin correlations,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-17 Weiyao Li , Vitor Dantas , Wen-Han Kao , Natalia B. Perkins

The bulk-boundary correspondence is a defining feature of topological states of matter. However, for quantum magnets such as spin liquids or topological magnon insulators a direct observation of topological surface states has proven…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-21 Johannes Feldmeier , Willian Natori , Michael Knap , Johannes Knolle

Scanning tunneling miscoscopy is one of the most powerful spectroscopic tools for single-electron excitations. We show that the conductance fluctuations, or noise in the conductance, of a tunneling current into an interacting electron…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-02-03 Kelly R. Patton , Hartmut Hafermann , Sergej Brener , Alexander I. Lichtenstein , Mikhail I. Katsnelson

The quantum geometric tensor (QGT) embodies the geometry of the eigenstates of a system's Hamiltonian, and its full characterization across diverse quantum systems is essential. However, it is challenging to characterize the QGT of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Shu-Hui Zhang , Jin Yang , Ding-Fu Shao , Jia-Ji Zhu , Wen-Long You , Wen Yang , Kai Chang

Quantum spin liquids (QSL) are exotic phases of matter that host fractionalized excitations. It is difficult for local probes to characterize QSL, whereas quantum entanglement can serve as a powerful diagnostic tool due to its non-locality.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-30 Wei Zhu , Xiao Chen , Yin-Chen He , William Witczak-Krempa

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) host emergent, fractionalized fermionic excitations that are charge-neutral. Identifying clear experimental signatures of these excitations remains a central challenge in the field of strongly correlated systems,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-04 Penghao Zhu , Archisman Panigrahi , Leonid Levitov , Nandini Trivedi

Realistic model Hamiltonians for quantum spin liquids frequently exhibit a large separation of energy scales between their elementary excitations. At intermediate, experimentally relevant temperatures, some excitations are sparse and hop…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-17 Oliver Hart , Yuan Wan , Claudio Castelnovo

Continuum of spin excitations observed in inelastic neutron scattering experiments are often considered as a strong evidence of quantum spin liquid formation. When quantum spin liquid is indeed the ground state of a disorder-free magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-15 Jieming Sheng , Le Wang , Wenrui Jiang , Han Ge , Nan Zhao , Tiantian Li , Maiko Kofu , Dehong Yu , Wei Zhu , Jia-Wei Mei , Zhentao Wang , Liusuo Wu

We study quasiparticle interference (QPI) in the Kitaev quantum spin liquid (QSL) for electrons tunneling into the QSL. The local tunneling conductance around a spin vacancy or localized vison reveals unique features associated with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-28 Ammar Jahin , Hao Zhang , Gábor B. Halász , Shi-Zeng Lin

Quantum spin liquids realize massive entanglement and fractional quasiparticles from localized spins, proposed as an avenue for quantum science and technology. In particular, topological quantum computations are suggested in the non-abelian…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-19 Kyusung Hwang , Ara Go , Ji Heon Seong , Takasada Shibauchi , Eun-Gook Moon

The emergence of a quantum spin liquid (QSL), a state of matter that can result when electron spins are highly correlated but do not become ordered, has been the subject of a considerable body of research in condensed matter physics. Spin…

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