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 …

Variational Monte Carlo Study of the -Magnetization Plateau in Kagome Antiferromagnets

LW He, SL Yu, JX Li - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Motivated by very recent experimental observations of the 1/9-magnetization plateaus in
YCu 3 (OH) 6+ x Br 3-x and YCu 3 (OD) 6+ x Br 3-x, our study delves into the magnetic-field …

Magnetic ground states in the kagome system

A Xu, Q Shen, B Liu, Z Zeng, L Han, L Yan, J Luo… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Quantum spin liquids represent exotic states of spin systems characterized by long-range
entanglement and emergent fractionalized quasiparticles. It is generally believed that …

Nonanalytic magnetic response and intrinsic ferromagnetic clusters in a kagome spin-liquid candidate

BS Shivaram, JC Prestigiacomo, A Xu, Z Zeng, TD Ford… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Finding distinct signatures of a quantum spin liquid (QSL) is an ongoing quest in condensed
matter physics, invariably complicated by the presence of disorder in real materials. In this …

Six magnetization plateau phases in a spin- distorted kagome antiferromagnet: Application to

K Bodaiji, K Morita, Y Fukumoto - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
A recently discovered kagome antiferromagnet Y 3 Cu 9 (OH) 19 Cl 8 has attracted
significant interest due to its unique kagome lattice structure and magnetic properties. The …

Spectral evidence for Dirac spinons in a kagome lattice antiferromagnet

Z Zeng, C Zhou, H Zhou, L Han, R Chi, K Li, M Kofu… - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Emergent quasiparticles with a Dirac dispersion in condensed matter systems can be
described by the Dirac equation for relativistic electrons, in analogy with Dirac particles in …

Dirac spinons intermingled with singlet states in the random kagome antiferromagnet ()

C Lee, W Lee, S Lee, T Yamanaka, S Jeon, J Khatua… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We elucidate the ground state nature and low-energy spin dynamics of the s= 1/2 near-
perfect kagome antiferromagnet YCu 3 (OD) 6+ x Br 3− x (x= 0.5) using Cu 63 nuclear …

Phonon thermal Hall effect in Mott insulators via skew-scattering by the scalar spin chirality

T Oh, N Nagaosa - arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.01671, 2024 - arxiv.org
Thermal transport is a crucial probe for studying excitations in insulators. In Mott insulators,
the primary candidates for heat carriers are spins and phonons, and which dominates the …

Kitaev quantum spin liquids

Y Matsuda, T Shibauchi, HY Kee - arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.05608, 2025 - arxiv.org
Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) represent exotic states of matter where quantum spins interact
strongly yet evade long-range magnetic order down to absolute zero. Characterized by non …

Dirac quantum spin liquid emerging in a kagome-lattice antiferromagnet

Z Zeng, C Zhou, H Zhou, L Han, R Chi, K Li… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Emerging quasi-particles with Dirac dispersion in condensed matter physics are analogous
to their cousins in high-energy physics in that both of them can be described by the Dirac …