Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models and beyond: Window into non-Fermi liquids

D Chowdhury, A Georges, O Parcollet… - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2022 - APS
This is a review of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model of compressible quantum many-
body systems without quasiparticle excitations, and its connections to various theoretical …

Quantum spin liquids

C Broholm, RJ Cava, SA Kivelson, DG Nocera… - Science, 2020 - science.org
BACKGROUND Years ago, Lev Landau taught us how to think about distinct phases of
matter through an order parameter that characterizes the symmetry-broken state relative to …

Fermi-liquid instabilities at magnetic quantum phase transitions

H Löhneysen, A Rosch, M Vojta, P Wölfle - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2007 - APS
This review discusses instabilities of the Fermi-liquid state of conduction electrons in metals
with particular emphasis on magnetic quantum critical points. Both existing theoretical …

Weak magnetism and non-Fermi liquids near heavy-fermion critical points

T Senthil, M Vojta, S Sachdev - Physical Review B, 2004 - APS
This paper is concerned with the weak-moment magnetism in heavy-fermion materials and
its relation to the non-Fermi-liquid physics observed near the transition to the Fermi liquid …

Two-orbital SU(N) magnetism with ultracold alkaline-earth atoms

AV Gorshkov, M Hermele, V Gurarie, C Xu… - Nature physics, 2010 - nature.com
Fermionic alkaline-earth atoms have unique properties that make them attractive candidates
for the realization of atomic clocks and degenerate quantum gases. At the same time, they …

1T-TaS2 as a quantum spin liquid

KT Law, PA Lee - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
1T-TaS2 is unique among transition metal dichalcogenides in that it is understood to be a
correlation-driven insulator, where the unpaired electron in a 13-site cluster experiences …

Unconventional Fermi surface in an insulating state

BS Tan, YT Hsu, B Zeng, MC Hatnean, N Harrison… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Insulators occur in more than one guise; a recent finding was a class of topological
insulators, which host a conducting surface juxtaposed with an insulating bulk. Here, we …

Magnetic memory and spontaneous vortices in a van der Waals superconductor

E Persky, AV Bjørlig, I Feldman, A Almoalem, E Altman… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Doped Mott insulators exhibit some of the most intriguing quantum phases of matter,
including quantum spin liquids, unconventional superconductors and non-Fermi liquid …

Topological order, emergent gauge fields, and Fermi surface reconstruction

S Sachdev - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
This review describes how topological order associated with the presence of emergent
gauge fields can reconstruct Fermi surfaces of metals, even in the absence of translational …

Cooper pairing in non-Fermi liquids

MA Metlitski, DF Mross, S Sachdev, T Senthil - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
States of matter with a sharp Fermi surface but no well-defined Landau quasiparticles arise
in a number of physical systems. Examples include (i) quantum critical points associated …