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Spin-orbit coupling is of fundamental interest in both quantum optical and condensed matter systems alike. In this work, we show that optically induced electronic excitations in lattices of V-type atoms exhibit an emergent spin-orbit…

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Spiral spin liquids possess a subextensively degenerate ground-state manifold, represented by a continuum of energy minima in reciprocal space. Since a small change of the spiral state wavevector requires a global change of the spin…

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We investigate the effect of ring-exchange on the ground-state properties and magnetic excitations of the $S = 1/2$ Heisenberg model on the anisotropic triangular lattice with ring-exchange at $T = 0$ using linear spin-wave theory.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-15 Michael Holt , Ben J. Powell , Jaime Merino

Using Random Phase Approximation, we show that a crossed-chains model of a spin-1/2 Heisenberg spins, with frustrated interchain couplings, has a non-dimerized spin-liquid ground state in 2D, with deconfined spinons as the elementary…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Oleg A. Starykh , Rajiv R. P. Singh , Gregory C. Levine

We study excitations in weakly interacting pairs of quantum spin ladders coupled through geometrically frustrated bonds. The ground state is a disordered spin liquid, that at high fields is replaced by an ordered chiral helimagnetic phase.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Zheludev , V. O. Garlea , A. Tsvelik , L. -P. Regnault , K. Habicht , K. Kiefer , B. Roessli

Using Lanczos exact diagonalization of finite clusters we demonstrate that the spin-orbital $d^1$ model for triply degenerate $t_{2g}$ orbitals on a triangular lattice provides an example of a spin-orbital liquid ground state. We also show…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-25 Andrzej M. Oleś , Jiří Chaloupka

Motivated by recent experiments on the frustrated quantum magnetic compound YbMgGaO4, we study an effective spin model on triangular lattice taking into account the effects of the spin-orbit coupling. We determine the classical ground-state…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-17 Changle Liu , Xiaoqun Wang , Rong Yu

We study the effects of quantum fluctuations on a non-coplanar tetrahedral spin structure, which has a scalar chiral order, in the spin-1/2 multiple-spin exchange model with up to the six-spin exchange interactions on a triangular lattice.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-25 Shogo Taira , Chitoshi Yasuda , Tsutomu Momoi , Kenn Kubo

The Coulombic quantum spin liquid in quantum spin ice is an exotic quantum phase of matter that emerges on the pyrochlore lattice and is currently actively searched for. Motivated by recent experiments on the Yb-based breathing pyrochlore…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-23 Lucile Savary , Xiaoqun Wang , Hae-Young Kee , Yong Baek Kim , Yue Yu , Gang Chen

Distinct symmetry enriched topological orders often do not have classical distinctions. Motivated by the recent progress on the pyrochlore spin ice materials based on the dipole-octupole doublets, we argue that the dipolar spin liquid and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-07 Pengwei Zhao , Gang v. Chen

A formation of tetrahedral spin clusters is discovered by Monte Carlo simulation for a spin-ice type double-exchange model on a pyrochlore lattice. The spin-cluster phase is magnetically disordered, but breaks spatial inversion symmetry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-08-29 Hiroaki Ishizuka , Yukitoshi Motome

The study of magnetic frustration in classical spin systems was motivated by the prediction and discovery of classical spin liquid states. These uncommon magnetic phases are characterized by a massive degeneracy of their ground state…

The geometrically frustrated 3D pyrochlore lattice has been long predicted to host a quantum spin liquid, an intrinsic long-range entangled state with fractionalized excitations. To date, most proposals for pyrochlore materials have focused…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-11 Chunxiao Liu , Gábor B. Halász , Leon Balents

We consider the extended hard-core Bose-Hubbard model on a Kagome lattice with boundary conditions on two edges. We find that the sharp edges lift the degeneracy and freeze the system into a striped order at 1/3 and 2/3 filling for zero…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-10-02 Xue-Feng Zhang , Sebastian Eggert

We study spin liquid phases of spin-5/2 alkaline earth atoms on a honeycomb lattice at finite temperatures. Our analysis is based on a Gutzwiller projection variational approach recast to a path-integral formalism. In the framework of a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-10-15 P. Sinkovicz , A. Zamora , E. Szirmai , M. Lewenstein , G. Szirmai

Spin-liquid and spin-glass states represent two distinct phases of disordered quantum spin systems. These states are, in principle, distinguished by quantum-entangled fluctuations and spin freezing, but identifying each state and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-09 Shusei Wadashima , Yukitoshi Motome

When considering magnetic systems in the thermodynamic limit and at low enough temperature, one finds typically magnetically ordered phases. In contrast, in the high-temperature regime, the interactions between the spin degrees of freedom…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-27 Sylvain Capponi

Recent ultracold atomic gas experiments implementing synthetic spin-orbit coupling allow access to flatbands that emphasize interactions. We model spin-orbit coupled fermions in a one-dimensional flatband optical lattice. We introduce an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-06-10 Fei Lin , Chuanwei Zhang , V. W. Scarola

We study the effects of a uniform electric field on the the ground state and excitations of the three-dimensional U(1) spin liquid phase of a breathing pyrochlore lattice, arising due to the coupling between the conventional (Maxwell)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-27 Ipsita Mandal