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Quantum spin liquids are long-range entangled phases whose magnetic correlations are determined by strong quantum fluctuations. While an overarching principle specifying the precise microscopic coupling scenarios for which quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-08 Nils Niggemann , Max Hering , Johannes Reuther

Quantum spin liquids, exotic phases of matter with topological order, have been a major focus of explorations in physical science for the past several decades. Such phases feature long-range quantum entanglement that can potentially be…

Gapless fracton quantum spin liquids are exotic phases of matter described by higher-rank U(1) gauge theories which host gapped and immobile fracton matter excitations as well as gapless photons. Despite well-known field theories, no spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-12 Nils Niggemann , Meghadeepa Adhikary , Yannik Schaden-Thillmann , Johannes Reuther

The identification of fractionalized excitations in quantum spin liquids (QSLs) remains a central challenge in condensed matter physics. In dipolar-octupolar (DO) pyrochlores, such as $\text{Ce}_2\text{Zr}_2\text{O}_7$, the candidate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-07 Bin Gao , Zhengbang Zhou , Tingjun Zhang , Andrey Podlesnyak , Sang-Wook Cheong , Yong Baek Kim , Pengcheng Dai

We investigate the nature of quantum spin liquid (QSL) phase of the spin-$1/2$ nearest-neighbor XXZ antiferromagnet on the kagome lattice. Recent numerical calculations suggest that such a kagome spin liquid is insensitive to the XXZ…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-22 Yin-Chen He , Yohei Fuji , Subhro Bhattacharjee

The Shastry-Sutherland model is an effective model of the layered material SrCu$_2$(BO$_3$)$_2$, which exhibits an extremely rich phase diagram as a function of pressure and magnetic field. Motivated by the recent controversy regarding its…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-12 Philippe Corboz , Yining Zhang , Boris Ponsioen , Frédéric Mila

Recent advances in material synthesis made it possible to realize two-dimensional monolayers of candidate materials for a quantum spin liquid (QSL) such as $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$,1T-TaSe$_2$ and 1T-TaS$_2$. In this work, we propose an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-27 Raffaele Mazzilli , Alex Levchenko , Elio J. König

It has been suggested that the nearest-neighbour (NN) antiferromagnetic Heisenberg (HAF) model on the Kagome lattice may be a good starting point to understand the quantum spin-liquid (QSL) behaviour discovered in Herbertsmithite. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-01-16 Tyler Dodds , Subhro Bhattacharjee , Yong Baek Kim

We investigate an unconventional topological phase transition that occurs in quantum spin Hall (QSH) systems when applying an external in-plane magnetic field. We show that this transition between QSH and trivial insulator phases is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-02 Fernando Dominguez , Benedikt Scharf , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

Quantum antiferromagnets on geometrically frustrated lattices have long attracted interest for the formation of quantum disordered states and the possible emergence of quantum spin liquid (QSL) ground states. Here we turn to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-21 Lasse Gresista , Ciarán Hickey , Simon Trebst , Yasir Iqbal

Recent experiments on the dipolar-octupolar pyrochlore compound Ce$_2$Zr$_2$O$_7$ indicate that it may realize a three-dimensional quantum spin liquid (QSL). In particular, the analyses of available data suggest that the system is in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-30 Félix Desrochers , Li Ern Chern , Yong Baek Kim

The ground states of the frustrated pyrochlore oxide Tb$_{2+x}$Ti$_{2-x}$O$_{7+y}$ have been studied by inelastic neutron scattering experiments. Three single-crystal samples are investigated; one shows no phase transition…

We identify fingerprints of a proximate quantum spin-liquid (QSL), observable by finite-temperature dynamical thermal transport within a minimal version of the idealized Kitaev model on a two-leg ladder, if subjected to inevitably present…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-21 Alexandros Metavitsiadis , Christina Psaroudaki , Wolfram Brenig

A low-energy neutral quasiparticle in a fractional quantum Hall system appears in the latter's energy spectrum on a sphere as a series of many-body excited states labeled by the angular momentum $L$ and whose energy is a smooth function of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-19 Dung Xuan Nguyen , Dam Thanh Son

Quantum spin liquids have been at the forefront of correlated electron research ever since their original proposal in 1973, and the realization that they belong to the broader class of intrinsic topological orders, along with the fractional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-26 Ioannis Rousochatzakis , Yuriy Sizyuk , Natalia B. Perkins

Quantum spin liquids are fascinating phases of matter, hosting fractionalized spin excitations and unconventional long-range quantum entanglement. These exotic properties, however, also render their experimental characterization…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-20 Wilhelm Kadow , Laurens Vanderstraeten , Michael Knap

We investigate the emergence of an amplitude (Higgs-like) mode in the gapless phase of the $(1+1)$D XXZ spin chain. Unlike conventional settings where amplitude modes arise from spontaneous symmetry breaking, here, we identify a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-30 Hyunsoo Ha , David A. Huse , Rhine Samajdar

Quantum spin liquids (QSL) are novel phases of matter which remain quantum disordered even at the lowest temperature. They are characterized by emergent gauge fields and fractionalized quasiparticles. Here we show that the sub-Kelvin…

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

Quantum spin liquids are highly entangled ground states of quantum systems with emergent gauge structure, fractionalized spinon excitations, and other unusual properties. While these features clearly distinguish quantum spin liquids from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-06-18 Lucile Savary , Leon Balents