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 …

Experimental signatures of quantum and topological states in frustrated magnetism

J Khatua, B Sana, A Zorko, M Gomilšek, K Sethupathi… - Physics Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
Frustration in magnetic materials arising from competing exchange interactions can prevent
the system from adopting long-range magnetic order and can instead lead to a diverse …

Chiral spin liquid phase of the triangular lattice Hubbard model: a density matrix renormalization group study

A Szasz, J Motruk, MP Zaletel, JE Moore - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
Motivated by experimental studies that have found signatures of a quantum spin liquid
phase in organic crystals whose structure is well described by the two-dimensional …

Gapped magnetic ground state in quantum spin liquid candidate κ-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu2(CN)3

B Miksch, A Pustogow, MJ Rahim, AA Bardin… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Geometrical frustration, quantum entanglement, and disorder may prevent long-range
ordering of localized spins with strong exchange interactions, resulting in an exotic state of …

Quantum spin liquid with emergent chiral order in the triangular-lattice Hubbard model

BB Chen, Z Chen, SS Gong, DN Sheng, W Li… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
The interplay between spin frustration and charge fluctuation gives rise to an exotic quantum
state in the intermediate-interaction regime of the half-filled triangular-lattice Hubbard model …

Evidence for a spinon Kondo effect in cobalt atoms on single-layer 1T-TaSe2

Y Chen, WY He, W Ruan, J Hwang, S Tang, RL Lee… - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Quantum spin liquids are highly entangled, disordered magnetic states that are expected to
arise in frustrated Mott insulators and to exhibit exotic fractional excitations such as spinons …

Ising-type quantum spin liquid state in

N Li, A Rutherford, YY Wang, H Liang, QJ Li, ZJ Zhang… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We have grown single crystals of PrMgAl 11 O 19, an ideal triangular-lattice antiferromagnet,
and performed magnetic susceptibility, specific heat, and thermal conductivity …

Thermal Hall effects in quantum magnets

XT Zhang, YH Gao, G Chen - Physics Reports, 2024 - Elsevier
In the recent years, the thermal Hall transport has risen as an important diagnosis of the
physical properties of the elementary excitations in various quantum materials, especially …

Charge-neutral electronic excitations in quantum insulators

S Wu, LM Schoop, I Sodemann, R Moessner, RJ Cava… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Experiments on quantum materials have uncovered many interesting quantum phases
ranging from superconductivity to a variety of topological quantum matter including the …

Effect of quenched disorder on the quantum spin liquid state of the triangular-lattice antiferromagnet

H Murayama, Y Sato, T Taniguchi, R Kurihara… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
A quantum spin liquid (QSL) is an exotic state of matter characterized by quantum
entanglement and the absence of any broken symmetry. A longstanding open problem …