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On a lattice composed of triangular plaquettes where antiferromagnetic exchange interactions between localized spins cannot be simultaneously satisfied, the system becomes geometrically frustrated with magnetically disordered phases…

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 liquid is an exotic quantum state of matter in magnets. This state is a spin analogue of the liquid helium which does not solidify down to the lowest temperature due to strong quantum fluctuations. In conventional fluids,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-22 Joji Nasu , Masafumi Udagawa , Yukitoshi Motome

Quantum spin liquids are exotic states of matter which form when strongly frustrated magnetic interactions induce a highly entangled quantum paramagnet far below the energy scale of the magnetic interactions. Three-dimensional cases are…

A decade ago, Alexei Kitaev proposed an exactly solvable $S$ = 1/2 model on a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice, where the spins fractionalize into Majorana fermions and form a topological quantum spin liquid (QSL) in the ground state. It…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-21 Hidenori Takagi , Tomohiro Takayama , George Jackeli , Giniyat Khaliullin , Stephen E. Nagler

We examine the spectroscopic signatures of tunneling through a Kitaev quantum spin liquid (QSL) barrier in a number of experimentally relevant geometries. We combine contributions from elastic and inelastic tunneling processes and find that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-04 Elio J. König , Mallika T. Randeria , Berthold Jäck

Quantum spin liquid (QSL) is a novel state of matter with exotic excitations and was theoretically predicted to be realized most possibly in an S=1/2 kagome antiferromagnet. Experimentally searching for the candidate materials is a big…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-15 Yuesheng Li , Bingying Pan , Shiyan Li , Wei Tong , Langsheng Ling , Zhaorong Yang , Junfeng Wang , Zhongjun Chen , Zhonghua Wu , Qingming Zhang

Numerous experiments on pyrochlore oxides Pr$_2$(Zr, Sn, Hf, Ir)$_2$O$_7$ with non-Kramers Pr$^{3+}$ ions suggest that they support a quantum spin liquid (QSL) ground state, but the precise nature of the QSL remains unclear. Quantum spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-15 Tony An , Félix Desrochers , Yong Baek Kim

Quantum plasmas is a rapidly expanding field of research, with applications ranging from nanoelectronics, nanoscale devices and ultracold plasmas, to inertial confinement fusion and astrophysics. Here we give a short systematic overview of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 M. Marklund , G. Brodin

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 (QSLs) represent a novel state where spins are highly entangled but do not order even at zero temperature due to strong quantum fluctuations. Such a state is mostly studied in Heisenberg models defined on geometrically…

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

Organic solids host various electronic phases. Especially, a milestone compound of organic solid, $\beta'$-$X$[Pd(dmit)$_2$]$_2$ with $X$=EtMe$_3$Sb shows quantum spin-liquid (QSL) properties suggesting a novel state of matter. However,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-29 Kota Ido , Kazuyoshi Yoshimi , Takahiro Misawa , Masatoshi Imada

We investigate the possibility of exotic phenomena, viz. quantum spin liquid (QSL) or deconfined quantum critical point (DQCP), in the spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ Heisenberg model on the maple-leaf lattice, a geometrically frustrated system formed…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-18 Pratyay Ghosh

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

Topological states of matter such as quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are of great interest because of their remarkable predicted properties including protection of quantum information and the emergence of Majorana fermions. Such QSLs, however,…

We study in this paper quantum spin liquid states (QSLs) at the vicinity of metal-insulator transition. Assuming that the low energy excitations in the QSLs are labeled by "spinon" occupation numbers with the same Fermi surface structure as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-10-23 Yi Zhou , Tai-Kai Ng

Molecular spin clusters are mesoscopic systems whose structural and physical features can be tailored at the synthetic level. Besides, their quantum behavior is directly accessible in laboratory and their magnetic properties can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 F. Troiani , V. Bellini , A. Candini , G. Lorusso , M. Affronte

The topic of the review is the application of new ideas of unconventional quantum states to the physics of condensed matter, in particular of solid state, in the context of modern field theory. A comparison is made with classical papers on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-19 V. Yu. Irkhin , Yu. N. Skryabin

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…