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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

The kagome Heisenberg antiferromagnet is a leading candidate in the search for a spin system with a quantum spin-liquid ground state. The nature of its ground state remains a matter of great debate. We conducted 17-O single crystal NMR…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-09 M. Fu , T. Imai , T. -H. Han , Y. S. Lee

Motivated by recent experiments on the material Ba_3NiSb_2O_9 we consider a spin-one quantum antiferromagnet on a triangular lattice with the Heisenberg bilinear and biquadratic exchange interactions and a single-ion anisotropy. Using a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-08-30 Maksym Serbyn , T. Senthil , Patrick A. Lee

The S = 1/2 triangular lattice antiferromagnet (TLAF) is a paradigmatic example of frustrated quantum magnetism. An ongoing challenge involves understanding the influence of exchange anisotropy on the collective behavior within such…

The two-dimensional triangular-lattice antiferromagnet (TLAF) is a textbook example of frustrated magnetic systems. Despite its simplicity, the TLAF model exhibits a highly rich and complex magnetic phase diagram, featuring numerous…

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

We study fermionic quantum spin liquids (QSLs) on the three-dimensonal trillium lattice of corner-sharing triangles. We are motivated by recent experimental and theoretical investigations that have explored various classical and quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-05 Ming-Hao Li , Sounak Biswas , S. A. Parameswaran

The frustrated magnet $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$ constitutes a fascinating quantum material platform that harbors the intriguing Kitaev physics. However, a consensus on its intricate spin interactions and field-induced quantum phases has not been…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-16 Han Li , Hao-Kai Zhang , Jiucai Wang , Han-Qing Wu , Yuan Gao , Dai-Wei Qu , Zheng-Xin Liu , Shou-Shu Gong , Wei Li

We found a plateau in the magnitude of the isolated magnetic moments as a function of the anisotropy of the transfer integral (t'/t) in the gapless quantum spin liquid (QSL) phase of an S=1/2 triangular lattice molecular solid X[Pd(dmit)2]2…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-20 K. Ueda , S. Fujiyama , R. Kato

The recently fabricated two-dimensional magnetic materials Cu9X2(cpa)6.xH2O (cpa=2-carboxypentonic acid; X=F,Cl,Br) have copper sites which form a triangular kagome lattice (TKL), formed by introducing small triangles (``a-trimers'') inside…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-07-24 Dao-Xin Yao , Yen Lee Loh , Erica W. Carlson , Michael Ma

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) form an extremely unusual magnetic state in which the spins are highly correlated and fluctuate coherently down to the lowest temperatures, but without symmetry breaking and without the formation of any static…

Identifying the elusive spinon excitations in quantum spin liquid (QSL) materials is what scientists have long sought for. Recently, thermal conductivity ($\kappa$) has emerged to be a decisive probe because the fermionic nature of spinons…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-24 N. Li , A. Brassington , M. F. Shu , Y. Y. Wang , H. Liang , Q. J. Li , X. Zhao , P. J. Baker , H. Kikuchi , T. Masuda , G. Duan , C. Liu , H. Wang , W. Xie , R. Zhong , J. Ma , R. Yu , H. D. Zhou , X. F. Sun

Triangular lattice of rare-earth ions with interacting effective spin-$1/2$ local moments is an ideal platform to explore the physics of quantum spin liquids (QSLs) in the presence of strong spin-orbit coupling, crystal electric fields, and…

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

Frustrated Ising magnets host exotic excitations, such as magnetic monopoles in spin ice. The ground state (GS) in this case is characterized by an extensive degeneracy and associated residual entropy going back to the pioneering work by G.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-14 Yuesheng Li , Sebastian Bachus , Yoshifumi Tokiwa , Alexander A. Tsirlin , Philipp Gegenwart

The quantum spin liquid (QSL) state is an exotic state of matter featuring a high degree of entanglement and lack of long-range magnetic order in the zero-temperature limit. The triangular antiferromagnet YbMgGaO4 is a candidate QSL host,…

Recent studies have revealed that the randomness-induced quantum spin liquid (QSL)-like state is stabilized in certain frustrated quantum magnets in two and three dimensions. In order to clarify the nature of this gapless QSL-like state, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-24 Kazuki Uematsu , Toshiya Hikihara , Hikaru Kawamura

We investigate the ground-state and the finite-temperature properties of the bond-random $s=1/2$ Heisenberg model on a square lattice with frustrating nearest- and next-nearest-neighbor antiferromagnetic interactions, $J_1$ and $J_2$, by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-26 Kazuki Uematsu , Hikaru Kawamura

The classical XXZ triangular-lattice antiferromagnet (TAF) shows both an Ising and a BKT transition, related to the chirality and the in-plane spin components, respectively. In this paper the quantum effects on the thermodynamic quantities…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 L. Capriotti , A. Cuccoli , V. Tognetti , P. Verrucchi , R. Vaia

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…