Experimental identification of quantum spin liquids

J Wen, SL Yu, S Li, W Yu, JX Li - npj Quantum Materials, 2019 - nature.com
In condensed matter physics there is a novel phase termed 'quantum spin liquid', in which
strong quantum fluctuations prevent long-range magnetic order from being estab lished, and …

Hierarchy of Exchange Interactions in the Triangular-Lattice Spin Liquid

X Zhang, F Mahmood, M Daum, Z Dun, JAM Paddison… - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
The spin-1/2 triangular lattice antiferromagnet YbMgGaO 4 has attracted attention recently
as a quantum spin-liquid candidate with the possible presence of off-diagonal anisotropic …

Recent progress on magnetic-field studies on quantum-spin-liquid candidates

Z Ma, K Ran, J Wang, S Bao, Z Cai, S Li… - Chinese Physics …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) represent a novel state of matter in which quantum fluctuations
prevent the conventional magnetic order from being established, and the spins remain …

Semi-classical simulation of spin-1 magnets

K Remund, R Pohle, Y Akagi, J Romhányi… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
Theoretical studies of magnets have traditionally concentrated on either classical spins, or
the extreme quantum limit of spin-1/2. However, magnets built of spin-1 moments are also …

Diagnosing phases of magnetic insulators via noise magnetometry with spin qubits

S Chatterjee, JF Rodriguez-Nieva, E Demler - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Two-dimensional magnetic insulators exhibit a plethora of competing ground states, such as
ordered (anti) ferromagnets, exotic quantum spin liquid states with topological order and …

Detecting spin fractionalization in a spinon Fermi surface spin liquid

YD Li, G Chen - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
Motivated by the recent proposal that several candidate materials such as YbMgGaO 4
could be spinon Fermi surface spin liquids, we explore the experimental consequences of …

Ground-state study of the spin-1 bilinear-biquadratic Heisenberg model on the triangular lattice using tensor networks

I Niesen, P Corboz - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
Making use of infinite projected entangled pair states, we investigate the ground-state phase
diagram of the nearest-neighbor spin-1 bilinear-biquadratic Heisenberg model on the …

Vesignieite: An Kagome Antiferromagnet with Dominant Third-Neighbor Exchange

D Boldrin, B Fåk, E Canévet, J Ollivier, HC Walker… - Physical Review Letters, 2018 - APS
The spin-1 2 kagome antiferromagnet is an archetypal frustrated system predicted to host a
variety of exotic magnetic states. We show using neutron scattering measurements that …

A tensor network study of the complete ground state phase diagram of the spin-1 bilinear-biquadratic Heisenberg model on the square lattice

I Niesen, P Corboz - SciPost Physics, 2017 - scipost.org
Using infinite projected entangled pair states, we study the ground state phase diagram of
the spin-1 bilinear-biquadratic Heisenberg model on the square lattice directly in the …

Majorana Fermi surface state in a network of quantum spin chains

FG Oliviero, WB Fontana, RG Pereira - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We use junctions of critical spin-1 chains as the basic elements to construct a honeycomb
network that harbors a gapless chiral spin liquid phase. The low-energy modes are …