Quantum spin liquids: a review

L Savary, L Balents - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Quantum spin liquids may be considered'quantum disordered'ground states of spin systems,
in which zero-point fluctuations are so strong that they prevent conventional magnetic long …

Quantum spin ice: a search for gapless quantum spin liquids in pyrochlore magnets

MJP Gingras, PA McClarty - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The spin ice materials, including Ho 2 Ti 2 O 7 and Dy 2 Ti 2 O 7, are rare-earth pyrochlore
magnets which, at low temperatures, enter a constrained paramagnetic state with an …

Frustrated quantum rare-earth pyrochlores

JG Rau, MJP Gingras - Annual Review of Condensed Matter …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
In this review, we provide an introduction to the physics of a series of frustrated quantum rare-
earth pyrochlores. We first give a background on the microscopic single-and two-ion physics …

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 …

Weyl magnons in breathing pyrochlore antiferromagnets

FY Li, YD Li, YB Kim, L Balents, Y Yu, G Chen - Nature communications, 2016 - nature.com
Frustrated quantum magnets not only provide exotic ground states and unusual magnetic
structures, but also support unconventional excitations in many cases. Using a physically …

Quantum Spin Ice Dynamics in the Dipole-Octupole Pyrochlore Magnet

J Gaudet, EM Smith, J Dudemaine, J Beare… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
Neutron scattering measurements on the pyrochlore magnet Ce 2 Zr 2 O 7 reveal an
unusual crystal field splitting of its lowest J= 5/2 multiplet, such that its ground-state doublet …

Case for a Quantum Spin Liquid Ground State in the Dipole-Octupole Pyrochlore

EM Smith, O Benton, DR Yahne, B Placke, R Schäfer… - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
The Ce 3+ pseudospin-1/2 degrees of freedom in the pyrochlore magnet Ce 2 Zr 2 O 7 are
known to possess dipole-octupole character, making it a candidate for novel quantum spin …

Experimental Insights into Quantum Spin Ice Physics in Dipole–Octupole Pyrochlore Magnets

EM Smith, E Lhotel, S Petit… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
We review a key subset of the experimental studies that have recently focused on cubic
pyrochlore magnets whose pseudospin-1 2 degrees of freedom have mixed dipolar and …

Theory of multiple-phase competition in pyrochlore magnets with anisotropic exchange with application to , and

H Yan, O Benton, L Jaubert, N Shannon - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
The family of magnetic rare-earth pyrochlore oxides R 2 M 2 O 7 plays host to a diverse
array of exotic phenomena, driven by the interplay between geometrical frustration and spin …

Order-by-disorder from bond-dependent exchange and intensity signature of nodal quasiparticles in a honeycomb cobaltate

M Elliot, PA McClarty, D Prabhakaran… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Recent theoretical proposals have argued that cobaltates with edge-sharing octahedral
coordination can have significant bond-dependent exchange couplings thus offering a …