Muon spin spectroscopy

AD Hillier, SJ Blundell, I McKenzie, I Umegaki… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Muons are particles with a spin of ½ that can be implanted into a wide range of condensed
matter materials to act as a local probe of the surrounding atomic environment …

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 …

Continuous excitations of the triangular-lattice quantum spin liquid YbMgGaO4

JAM Paddison, M Daum, Z Dun, G Ehlers, Y Liu… - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
A quantum spin liquid (QSL) is an exotic state of matter in which electrons' spins are
quantum entangled over long distances, but do not show magnetic order in the zero …

Field-tunable quantum disordered ground state in the triangular-lattice antiferromagnet NaYbO2

MM Bordelon, E Kenney, C Liu, T Hogan, L Posthuma… - Nature Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Antiferromagnetically coupled S= 1/2 spins on an isotropic triangular lattice are the
paradigm of frustrated quantum magnetism, but structurally ideal realizations are rare. Here …

Valence Bonds in Random Quantum Magnets: Theory and Application to

I Kimchi, A Nahum, T Senthil - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
We analyze the effect of quenched disorder on spin-1/2 quantum magnets in which
magnetic frustration promotes the formation of local singlets. Our results include a theory for …

Disorder-Induced Mimicry of a Spin Liquid in

Z Zhu, PA Maksimov, SR White, AL Chernyshev - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
We suggest that a randomization of the pseudodipolar interaction in the spin-orbit-generated
low-energy Hamiltonian of YbMgGaO 4 due to an inhomogeneous charge environment from …

Rare-earth chalcogenides: A large family of triangular lattice spin liquid candidates

W Liu, Z Zhang, J Ji, Y Liu, J Li, X Wang… - Chinese Physics …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Frustrated quantum magnets are expected to host many exotic quantum spin states like
quantum spin liquid (QSL), and have attracted numerous interest in modern condensed …

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 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 …

The Ising triangular-lattice antiferromagnet neodymium heptatantalate as a quantum spin liquid candidate

T Arh, B Sana, M Pregelj, P Khuntia, Z Jagličić… - Nature Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Disordered magnetic states known as spin liquids are of paramount importance in both
fundamental and applied science. A classical state of this kind was predicted for the Ising …