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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…

The search for quantum spin liquids (QSL) -- topological magnets with fractionalized excitations -- has been a central theme in condensed matter and materials physics. While theories are no longer in short supply, tracking down materials…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-11 Anish Bhardwaj , Shu Zhang , Han Yan , Roderich Moessner , Andriy H. Nevidomskyy , Hitesh J. Changlani

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…

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

As one of the most intriguing states of matter, the chiral spin liquid (CSL) has attracted much scientific interest while its existence and mechanism in crystalline strongly correlated systems remain hotly debated. On the other hand, strong…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-04-09 Yixuan Huang , D. N. Sheng , Jian-Xin Zhu

The concept of quantum Fermi liquid for description of (quasi)-1D electronic systems is recovered. The model of (quasi)-1D quantum Fermi liquid is developed on the example of trans-polyacetylene and it is the generalization of well-known…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-08-09 Alla Dovlatova , Dmitri Yerchuck , Felix Borovik

The nature of the zero-temperature phase diagram of the spin-$1/2$ $J_1$-$J_2$ Heisenberg model on a square lattice has been debated in the past three decades, which may hold the key to understand high temperature superconductivity. By…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-01 Wen-Yuan Liu , Shou-Shu Gong , Yu-Bin Li , Didier Poilblanc , Wei-Qiang Chen , Zheng-Cheng Gu

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are exotic phases of matter exhibiting long-range entanglement and supporting emergent gauge fields. A vigorous search for experimental realizations of these states has identified several materials with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-24 Owen Benton

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

In this paper, we study the non-magnetic insulator state near Mott transition of 2D pi-flux Hubbard model on square lattice and find that such non-magnetic insulator state is quantum spin liquid state with nodal fermionic excitations -…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-13 Su-Peng Kou , Lan-Feng Liu , Jing He , Ya-Jie Wu

We study the zero-temperature phase diagram of the spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ Heisenberg model with breathing anisotropy (i.e., with different coupling strength on the upward and downward triangles) on the kagome lattice. Our study relies on large…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-01 Saeed S. Jahromi , Roman Orus , Didier Poilblanc , Frédéric Mila

Effects of electron correlations on a two dimensional quantum spin Hall (QSH) system are studied. We examine possible phases of a generalized Hubbard model on a bilayer honeycomb lattice with a spin-orbit coupling and short range…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-09-15 Michael W. Young , Sung-Sik Lee , Catherine Kallin

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are highly entangled, disordered magnetic states that arise in frustrated Mott insulators and host exotic fractional excitations such as spinons and chargons. Despite being charge insulators some QSLs are…

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…

The emergence of exotic quantum phenomena in frustrated magnets is rapidly driving the development of quantum many-body physics, raising fundamental questions on the nature of quantum phase transitions. Here we unveil the behaviour of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-29 Wen-Yuan Liu , Shou-Shu Gong , Wei-Qiang Chen , Zheng-Cheng Gu

Quantum spin liquids may be considered "quantum disordered" ground states of spin systems, in which zero point fluctuations are so strong that they prevent conventional magnetic long range order. More interestingly, quantum spin liquids are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-21 Lucile Savary , Leon Balents

Mott insulators with localized magnetic moments will exhibit a quantum spin liquid (QSL) state when the quantum fluctuations are strong enough to suppress the ordering of the spins. Such an entangled state will give rise to collective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-17 Haiyang Chen , Fo-Hong Wang , Qiang Gao , Xue-Jian Gao , Zhenhua Chen , Yaobo Huang , Kam Tuen Law , Xiao Yan Xu , Peng Chen

We report that a possible Z2 quantum spin liquid (QSL) can be observed in a new class of frustrated system: spinor bosons subject to a pi flux in a square lattice. We construct a new class of Ginsburg-Landau (GL) type of effective action to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-12 Fadi Sun , Jinwu Ye

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

This article is an introductory review of the physics of quantum spin liquid (QSL) states. Quantum magnetism is a rapidly evolving field, and recent developments reveal that the ground states and low-energy physics of frustrated spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-21 Yi Zhou , Kazushi Kanoda , Tai-Kai Ng