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The nature of the magnetic ground state of highly frustrated systems remained puzzling to this day. Here, we have performed multifrequency electron spin resonance (ESR) measurements on a putative quantum spin liquid compound…

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

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

Quantum spin liquids (QSL) are phases of matter which are distinguished not by the symmetries they break, but rather by the patterns of entanglement within them. Although these entanglement properties have been widely discussed for ground…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-10 Snigdh Sabharwal , Matthias Gohlke , Paul Skrzypczyk , Nic Shannon

Platelike high-quality NaYbS$_{2}$ rhombohedral single crystals with lateral dimensions of a few mm have been grown and investigated in great detail by bulk methods like magnetization and specific heat, but also by local probes like nuclear…

The study of quantum spin-liquid states (QSL) with lattice dimension $>1$ has proven an enduring problem in solid state physics. Key candidate materials are the $S=\frac{1}{2}$ kagome magnets due to their ability to host quantum…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-04 E Connolly , P Reeves , D Boldrin , A S Wills

Geometrical frustration in quantum magnets provides a fertile setting for unconventional phases of matter, including quantum spin liquids (QSLs). The trellis lattice, with its complex site arrangements and edge-sharing triangular motifs,…

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 liquid (QSL) is an exotic quantum phase of matter whose ground state is quantum-mechanically entangled without any magnetic ordering. A central issue concerns emergent excitations that characterize QSLs, which are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-08 Y. Tokiwa , T. Yamashita , D. Terazawa , K. Kimura , Y. Kasahara , T. Onishi , Y. Kato , M. Halim , P. Gegenwart , T. Shibauchi , S. Nakatsuji , E. -G. Moon , Y. Matsuda

Spin-$1/2$ kagome antiferromagnets are leading candidates for realizing quantum spin liquid (QSL) ground states. While QSL ground states are predicted for the pure Heisenberg model, understanding the robustness of the QSL to additional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-16 Shengtao Jiang , Arthur C. Campello , Wei He , Jiajia Wen , Daniel M. Pajerowski , Young S. Lee , Hong-Chen Jiang

The dipolar-octupolar pyrochlore oxides R$_2$M$_2$O$_7$ (R=Ce, Sm, Nd) represent an important opportunity in the search for three dimensional Quantum Spin Liquid (QSL) ground states. Their low energy physics is governed by an alluringly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-15 Owen Benton

A field-induced quantum spin liquid (QSL) state is an extraordinary phenomenon, hitherto unobserved in metallic frustrated compounds. Recent bulk measurements have revealed intriguing field-induced magnetic states in metallic frustrated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-12 I. Ishant , Z. Guguchia , V. Fritsch , O. Stockert , M. Majumder

The Kitaev model, whose ground state is a quantum spin liquid (QSL), was originally conceived for spin $S=1/2$ moments on a honeycomb lattice. In recent years, the model has been extended to higher $S$ from both theoretical and experimental…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-30 Kiyu Fukui , Yasuyuki Kato , Joji Nasu , Yukitoshi Motome

The disordered quasi-1D magnet BaCu2SiGeO7 is considered as one of the best physical realizations of the random Heisenberg chain model, which features an irregular distribution of the exchange parameters and whose ground state is predicted…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-02 T. Shiroka , F. Casola , W. Lorenz , A. Zheludev , H. -R. Ott , J. Mesot

Layered honeycomb magnets are of interest as potential realizations of the Kitaev quantum spin liquid (KQSL), a quantum state with long-range spin entanglement and an exactly solvable Hamiltonian. Conventional magnetically ordered states…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-28 Ruidan Zhong , Tong Gao , Nai Phuan Ong , Robert J. Cava

Polycrystalline samples of NaYbO$_2$ are investigated by bulk magnetization and specific-heat measurements, as well as by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and electron spin resonance (ESR) as local probes. No signatures of long-range…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-08 K. M. Ranjith , D. Dmytriieva , S. Khim , J. Sichelschmidt , S. Luther , D. Ehlers , H. Yasuoka , J. Wosnitza , A. A. Tsirlin , H. Kühne , M. Baenitz

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

A quantum spin liquid is a novel state of matter characterized by quantum entanglement and the absence of any broken symmetry. In condensed matter, the frustrated rare-earth pyrochlore magnets Ho$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$ and Dy$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-05 E. Kermarrec , J. Gaudet , K. Fritsch , R. Khasanov , Z. Guguchia , C. Ritter , K. A. Ross , H. A. Dabkowska , B. D. Gaulin

We study the thermodynamic and high-magnetic-field properties of the magnetic insulator Ba$_5$CuIr$_3$O$_{12}$, which shows no magnetic order down to 2 K consistent with a spin liquid ground state. While the temperature dependence of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-20 Pavel A. Volkov , Choong-Jae Won , D. I. Gorbunov , Jae-Wook Kim , Mai Ye , Heung-Sik Kim , J. H. Pixley , Sang-Wook Cheong , G. Blumberg

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