Chemistry of quantum spin liquids

JR Chamorro, TM McQueen, TT Tran - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Quantum spin liquids are an exciting playground for exotic physical phenomena and
emergent many-body quantum states. The realization and discovery of quantum spin liquid …

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 …

Experimental signatures of a three-dimensional quantum spin liquid in effective spin-1/2 Ce2Zr2O7 pyrochlore

B Gao, T Chen, DW Tam, CL Huang, K Sasmal… - Nature Physics, 2019 - nature.com
A quantum spin liquid is a state of matter where unpaired electrons' spins, although
entangled, do not show magnetic order even at the zero temperature. The realization of a …

Gapless ground state in the archetypal quantum kagome antiferromagnet ZnCu3(OH)6Cl2

P Khuntia, M Velazquez, Q Barthélemy, F Bert… - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Spin liquids are exotic phases of quantum matter that challenge Landau's paradigm of
symmetry-breaking phase transitions. Despite strong exchange interactions, spins do not …

Muon Spin Relaxation Evidence for the U(1) Quantum Spin-Liquid Ground State in the Triangular Antiferromagnet

Y Li, D Adroja, PK Biswas, PJ Baker, Q Zhang, J Liu… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
Muon spin relaxation (μ SR) experiments on single crystals of the structurally perfect
triangular antiferromagnet YbMgGaO 4 indicate the absence of both static long-range …

Crystalline Electric-Field Randomness in the Triangular Lattice Spin-Liquid

Y Li, D Adroja, RI Bewley, D Voneshen, AA Tsirlin… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
We apply moderate-high-energy inelastic neutron scattering (INS) measurements to
investigate Yb 3+ crystalline electric field (CEF) levels in the triangular spin-liquid candidate …

Physical realization of a quantum spin liquid based on a complex frustration mechanism

C Balz, B Lake, J Reuther, H Luetkens… - Nature Physics, 2016 - nature.com
Unlike conventional magnets where the magnetic moments are partially or completely static
in the ground state, in a quantum spin liquid they remain in collective motion down to the …

Quantum spin liquid ground state in the disorder free triangular lattice

R Sarkar, P Schlender, V Grinenko, E Haeussler… - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Rare-earth delafossites were recently proposed as promising candidates for the realization
of an effective S= 1/2 quantum spin liquid (QSL) on the triangular lattice. In contrast to the …

Global phase diagram of competing ordered and quantum spin-liquid phases on the kagome lattice

SS Gong, W Zhu, L Balents, DN Sheng - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
We study the quantum phase diagram of the spin-1/2 Heisenberg model on the kagome
lattice with first-, second-, and third-neighbor interactions J 1, J 2, and J 3 by means of …

Spin-liquid-like state in a spin-1/2 square-lattice antiferromagnet perovskite induced by d10d0 cation mixing

O Mustonen, S Vasala, E Sadrollahi, KP Schmidt… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
A quantum spin liquid state has long been predicted to arise in spin-1/2 Heisenberg square-
lattice antiferromagnets at the boundary region between Néel (nearest-neighbor interaction …