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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

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

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are fluid-like states of quantum spins where its long-range ordered state is destroyed by quantum fluctuations. The ground state of QSL and its exotic phenomena, which have been extensively discussed for decades,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-10-25 Minoru Yamashita , Takasada Shibauchi , Yuji Matsuda

Recently there has been considerable excitement surrounding the promising realization of high-spin Kitaev material, such as the quasi-2D compound CrI$_3$ and CrGeTe$_3$. However, the stability of quantum spin liquids (QSL) against single…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-01 Gui-Xin Liu , Ting-Long Wang , Yi-Fan Jiang

Quantum spin liquids have fascinated condensed matter physicists for decades because of their unusual properties such as spin fractionalization and long-range entanglement. Unlike conventional symmetry breaking the topological order…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-22 Maria Hermanns , Itamar Kimchi , Johannes Knolle

We explore the potential experimental realization of the mixed-spin Kitaev model in materials such as Zr$_{0.5}$Ru$_{0.5}$Cl$_3$, where spin-1/2 and spin-3/2 ions occupy distinct sublattices of a honeycomb lattice. By developing a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-09 Willian Natori , Yang Yang , Hui-Ke Jin , Johannes Knolle , Natalia B. Perkins

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are topologically ordered exotic states of matter that host fractionalized excitations. Kitaev proposed a particular route towards a QSL via strongly bond-dependent interactions on the hexagonal lattice. A number…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-06 Xinshu Zhang , Yuanyuan Xu , T. Halloran , Ruidan Zhong , R. J. Cava , C. Broholm , N. Drichko , N. P. Armitage

Many-body entanglement properties of quantum spin liquids (QSLs), persisting at arbitrarily long distances, have been intensely explored over the past two decades, but mostly for QSLs viewed as {\em closed} quantum systems. However, in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-23 Federico Garcia-Gaitan , Branislav K. Nikolic

Quantum spin liquids (QSL) are theoretical states of matter with long-range entanglement and exotic quasiparticles. However, they generally elude quantitative theory, rendering their underlying phases mysterious and hampering efforts to…

We study the effect of hole doping on the Kitaev spin liquid (KSL) and find that for ferromagnetic (FM) Kitaev exchange $K$ the system is very susceptible to the formation of a FM spin polarization. Through density matrix renormalization…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-25 Hui-Ke Jin , Wilhelm Kadow , Michael Knap , Johannes Knolle

Using an advanced version of the renormalized mean-field theory (RMFT) for the t-J model, we examine spin-singlet superconducting (SC) state of $d_{x^2 - y^2}$-symmetry. Overall doping dependence of the SC gap magnitude is in good agreement…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-14 Jakub Jȩdrak , Jozef Spałek

Thermal signatures of fractionalized excitations are a fingerprint of quantum spin liquids (QSLs). In the $J_{eff}=1/2$ honeycomb magnet $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$, a QSL state emerges upon applying an in-plane magnetic field $H_{||}$ greater than…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-01 J. A. N. Bruin , R. R. Claus , Y. Matsumoto , N. Kurita , H. Tanaka , H. Takagi

We study the 3D Kitaev and Kitaev-Heisenberg models respectively on the hyperhoneycomb and hyperoctagon lattices, both at zero and finite-temperature, in the thermodynamic limit. Our analysis relies on advanced tensor network (TN)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-08 Saeed S. Jahromi , Hadi Yarloo , Roman Orus

Chiral spin liquids (CSLs) are time-reversal symmetry breaking ground states of frustrated quantum magnets that show no long-range magnetic ordering, but instead exhibit topological order and fractional excitations. Their realization in…

Aligning with the everlasting search for quantum spin liquids (QSLs), identifying the QSL in Kitaev magnets has garnered great research interest during the past decade and remains nevertheless an enormous challenge. One of the major…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-03 Qiang Luo , Jize Zhao , Xiaoqun Wang

We study the uniform $U(1)$ quantum spin liquid (QSL) with low-energy fermionic quasiparticles for pyrochlore magnets with dipolar-octupolar symmetry, employing a fermionic parton mean field theory approach. Self-consistent calculations…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-07 Krushna Chandra Sahu , Sambuddha Sanyal

The frustrated magnet $\alpha$-RuCl3 is one of the prime candidates for realizing a Kitaev quantum spin liquid (QSL). However, the existence of a field-induced intermediate QSL phase in this material remains under debate. Here, we employ…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-07 Xuan Zou , Shuo Liu , Wenan Guo , Hong Yao

Quantum spin liquid (QSL) is a novel state of matter which refuses the conventional spin freezing even at 0 K. Experimentally searching for the structurally perfect candidates is a big challenge in condensed matter physics. Here we report…

The kagome lattice, with its unique geometric structure, has emerged as a leading platform for exploring quantum many-body physics, particularly in the study of quantum spin liquids (QSLs) and unconventional superconductivity. This review…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-19 Li-Wei He , Shun-Li Yu , Jian-Xin Li

In the search of quantum spin liquid (QSLs), spin-1/2 triangular-lattice Heisenberg antiferromagnets (TLHAFs) have always been viewed as fertile soils. Despite the true magnetically-ordered ground state, anisotropy has been considered to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-30 Chengpeng Tu , Zhen Ma , Hanru Wang , Yihan Jiao , Dongzhe Dai , Shiyan Li
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