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Motivated by recent experiments on the vanadium oxyfluoride material DQVOF, we examine possible spin liquid phases on a breathing kagome lattice of S=1/2 spins. By performing a projective symmetry group analysis, we determine the possible…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-15 Robert Schaffer , Yejin Huh , Kyusung Hwang , Yong Baek Kim

We investigate the extended Heisenberg model on the Kagome lattice by using Gutzwiller projected fermionic states and the variational Monte Carlo technique. In particular, when both second- and third-neighbor super-exchanges are considered,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-26 Wen-Jun Hu , Wei Zhu , Yi Zhang , Shoushu Gong , Federico Becca , D. N. Sheng

Quantum spin liquids are a new class of magnetic ground state in which spins are quantum mechanically entangled over macroscopic scales. Motivated by recent advances in the control of polar molecules, we show that dipolar interactions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-23 Norman Y. Yao , Michael P. Zaletel , Dan M. Stamper-Kurn , Ashvin Vishwanath

We report numerical ground states for the dipolar XY spin model, which describes extended antiferromagnetic interactions in two-dimensional arrays of polar molecules and two-level Rydberg atoms. Carrying out large-scale density matrix…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-11 Marcus Bintz , Ahmed Khalifa , Vincent S. Liu , Johannes Hauschild , Michael P. Zaletel , Shubhayu Chatterjee , Norman Y. Yao

Arrays of Rydberg atoms constitute a highly tunable, strongly interacting venue for the pursuit of exotic states of matter. We develop a new strategy for accessing a family of fractionalized phases known as quantum spin liquids in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-05 Kevin Slagle , Yue Liu , David Aasen , Hannes Pichler , Roger S. K. Mong , Xie Chen , Manuel Endres , Jason Alicea

Dual-species arrays of ultracold neutral atoms have recently attracted increased interest due to the ability to independently control different atomic species and tune the interatomic interactions. This capability provides additional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Ahmed M. Farouk , Ilya I. Beterov , Ghadeer Suliman , Junxi Chen , Igor I. Ryabtsev

We show that the nonlinear transport of bosonic excitations in a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice of spin-orbit coupled Rydberg atoms gives rise to disordered quantum phases which are candidates for quantum spin liquids. As recently…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-03-02 Simon Ohler , Maximilian Kiefer-Emmanouilidis , Michael Fleischhauer

We study the nearest neighbor $XXZ$ Heisenberg quantum antiferromagnet on the kagome lattice. Here we consider the effects of several perturbations: a) a chirality term, b) a Dzyaloshinski-Moriya term, and c) a ring-exchange type term on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-02 Krishna Kumar , Kai Sun , Eduardo Fradkin

Quantum spin liquids are exotic phases of matter whose low-energy physics is described as the deconfined phase of an emergent gauge theory. With recent theory proposals and an experiment showing preliminary signs of $\mathbb{Z}_2$…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-04-14 Jeet Shah , Gautam Nambiar , Alexey V. Gorshkov , Victor Galitski

We present a general review of the projective symmetry group classification of fermionic quantum spin liquids for lattice models of spin $S=1/2$. We then introduce a systematic generalization of the approach for symmetric $\mathbb{Z}_2$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-31 Samuel Bieri , Claire Lhuillier , Laura Messio

Using a perturbative renormalization group approach, we show that the extended ($J_1$-$J_2$-$J_d$) Heisenberg model on the kagome lattice with a staggered chiral interaction ($J_\chi$) can exhibit a gapless chiral quantum spin liquid phase.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-25 Rodrigo G. Pereira , Samuel Bieri

Topological insulator phases of non-interacting particles have been generalized from periodic crystals to amorphous lattices, which raises the question whether topologically ordered quantum many-body phases may similarly exist in amorphous…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-01 Gino Cassella , Peru D'Ornellas , Thomas Hodson , Willian M. H. Natori , Johannes Knolle

While the existence of a chiral spin liquid (CSL) on a class of spin-1/2 kagome antiferromagnets is by now well-established numerically, a controlled theoretical path from the lattice model leading to a low energy topological field theory…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-01-06 Yin-Chen He , Subhro Bhattacharjee , Frank Pollmann , R. Moessner

We propose in this work an effective field theory description of the chiral spin liquid state in Heisenberg spin system on kagom\'e lattice.To this end, we derive the low-energy effective theory of kagom\'e (isotropic) Heisenberg…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-08 Imam Makhfudz

Recent advances in moir\'e engineering motivate the study of lattice models of strongly-correlated electrons subjected to substantial orbital magnetic flux. We analyze the triangular lattice Hofstadter-Hubbard model at one-quarter flux…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-31 Stefan Divic , Tomohiro Soejima , Valentin Crépel , Michael P. Zaletel , Andrew Millis

The topological quantum spin liquids (SL) and the nature of quantum phase transitions between them have attracted intensive attentions for the past twenty years. The extended kagome spin-1/2 antiferromagnet emerges as the primary candidate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-08-05 W. Zhu , S. S. Gong , D. N. Sheng

The ground state of the spin$-1/2$ kagome antiferromagnet remains uncertain despite decades of active research. Here we step aside from this debated question to address the ground-state nature of a related, and potentially just as rich,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-11 Tristan Lugan , L. D. C Jaubert , Arnaud Ralko

We present measurements on a series of materials, Li$_2$In$_{1-x}$Sc$_x$Mo$_3$O$_8$, that can be described as a 1/6th-filled breathing kagome lattice. Substituting Sc for In generates chemical pressure which alters the breathing parameter…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-06 A. Akbari-Sharbaf , R. Sinclair , A. Verrier , D. Ziat , H. D. Zhou , X. F. Sun , J. A. Quilliam

The Kagome-lattice-based material, Volborthite, $\mathrm{Cu_3 V_2 O_7 (OH)_2 \cdot 2 H_2 O}$, has been considered as a promising platform for discovery of unusual quantum ground states due to the frustrated nature of spin interactions. Here…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-19 Li Ern Chern , Kyusung Hwang , Tomonari Mizoguchi , Yejin Huh , Yong Baek Kim

Quantum spin liquids are elusive but paradigmatic examples of strongly correlated quantum states that are characterized by long-range quantum entanglement. Recently, the direct signatures of a gapped topological $\mathbb{Z}_2$ spin liquid…