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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…

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs), in which spins are highly entangled, have been considered a groundwork for generating exotic superconductivity.Despite numerous efforts, superconductivity emerging from QSLs has been unrealized in actual…

Since strong quantum fluctuations are essential for the emergence of quantum spin liquids, there have been extensive exploration and identification of spin liquid candidates in spin-$1/2$ systems, while such activities are rare in higher…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-26 Wei-Wei Luo , Yixuan Huang , D. N. Sheng , W. Zhu

Kalmeyer-Laughlin (KL) chiral spin liquid (CSL) is a type of quantum spin liquid without time-reversal symmetry, and it is considered as the parent state of an exotic type of superconductivity--anyon superconductor. Such exotic state has…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-04-23 Yin-Chen He , D. N. Sheng , Yan Chen

Quantum Spin Liquids (QSLs) are phases of interacting spins that do not order even at the absolute zero temperature, making it impossible to characterize them by a local order parameter. In this article, we review the unique view provided…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-02-06 Tarun Grover , Yi Zhang , Ashvin Vishwanath

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

The quantum spin liquid (QSL) is an exotic phase of magnetic materials where the spins continue to fluctuate without any symmetry breaking down to zero temperature. Among the handful reports of QSL with spin $S\ge$1, examples with magnetic…

A quantum spin liquid (QSL) is an exotic state in which electron spins are highly entangled, yet keep fluctuating even at zero temperature. Experimental realization of model QSLs has been challenging due to imperfections, such as antisite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-25 Huanpeng Bu , Malik Ashtar , Toni Shiroka , Helen C. Walker , Zhendong Fu , Jinkui Zhao , Jason S. Gardner , Gang Chen , Zhaoming Tian , Hanjie Guo

Despite the rapid progresses in the field of quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect, most of the QSH systems studied up to now are based on crystalline materials. Here we propose that the QSH effect can be realized in quasicrystal lattices (QLs).…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-02 Huaqing Huang , Feng Liu

Spin liquids are quantum phases of matter that exhibit a variety of novel features associated with their topological character. These include various forms of fractionalization - elementary excitations that behave as fractions of an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-20 C. Broholm , R. J. Cava , S. A. Kivelson , D. G. Nocera , M. R. Norman , T. Senthil

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 liquid (QSL), a state characterized by exotic low energy fractionalized excitations and statistics is still elusive experimentally and may be gauged via indirect experimental signatures. Remnant of QSL phase may reflect in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-29 Vivek Kumar , Deepu Kumar , Birender Singh , Yuliia Shemerliuk , Mahdi Behnami , Bernd Buchner , Saicharan Aswartham , Pradeep Kumar

The quantum spin liquid (QSL) is a highly entangled magnetic state characterized by the absence of static magnetism in its ground state. Instead, the spins fluctuate in a highly correlated way down to the lowest temperatures. The QSL is…

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

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

The complex interplay between charge and spin dynamics lies at the heart of strongly correlated quantum materials, and it is a fundamental topic in basic research with far reaching technological perspectives. We explore in this paper the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-09 Jens H. Nyhegn , Kristian Knakkergaard Nielsen , Leon Balents , Georg M. Bruun

Based on experimental data and our theoretical analysis, we provide a strategy for unambiguous establishing of gapless quantum spin liquid state (QSL) in herbertsmithite and other materials. To clarify the nature of QSL, we recommend…

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

The nature of quantum spin liquids is studied for the spin-$1/2$ antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on a square lattice containing exchange interactions between nearest-neighbor sites, $J_1$, and those between next-nearest-neighbor sites,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-02-02 Satoshi Morita , Ryui Kaneko , Masatoshi Imada

The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) realized in two-dimensional electron systems under a magnetic field is one of the most remarkable discoveries in condensed matter physics. Interestingly, it has been proposed that FQHE can also…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-16 Shou-Shu Gong , Wei Zhu , D. N. Sheng