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 …

Spin liquids in frustrated magnets

L Balents - nature, 2010 - nature.com
Frustrated magnets are materials in which localized magnetic moments, or spins, interact
through competing exchange interactions that cannot be simultaneously satisfied, giving rise …

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 …

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 …

Rare-Earth Triangular Lattice Spin Liquid: A Single-Crystal Study of

Y Li, G Chen, W Tong, L Pi, J Liu, Z Yang, X Wang… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
YbMgGaO 4, a structurally perfect two-dimensional triangular lattice with an odd number of
electrons per unit cell and spin-orbit entangled effective spin-1/2 local moments for the Yb …

Spin ice state in frustrated magnetic pyrochlore materials

ST Bramwell, MJP Gingras - Science, 2001 - science.org
A frustrated system is one whose symmetry precludes the possibility that every pairwise
interaction (“bond”) in the system can be satisfied at the same time. Such systems are …

Magnetic pyrochlore oxides

JS Gardner, MJP Gingras, JE Greedan - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2010 - APS
Within the past 20 years or so, there has occurred an explosion of interest in the magnetic
behavior of pyrochlore oxides of the type A 2 3+ B 2 4+ O 7, where A is a rare-earth ion and …

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 …

Artificial 'spin ice'in a geometrically frustrated lattice of nanoscale ferromagnetic islands

RF Wang, C Nisoli, RS Freitas, J Li, W McConville… - Nature, 2006 - nature.com
Frustration, defined as a competition between interactions such that not all of them can be
satisfied, is important in systems ranging from neural networks to structural glasses …

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 …