Colloquium: Herbertsmithite and the search for the quantum spin liquid

MR Norman - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2016 - APS
Quantum spin liquids form a novel class of matter where, despite the existence of strong
exchange interactions, spins do not order down to the lowest measured temperature …

Quantum magnetism and criticality

S Sachdev - Nature Physics, 2008 - nature.com
Magnetic insulators have proved to be fertile ground for studying new types of quantum
many-body state, and I survey recent experimental and theoretical examples. The insights …

Gapless Spin-Liquid Ground State in the Kagome Antiferromagnet

HJ Liao, ZY Xie, J Chen, ZY Liu, HD Xie, RZ Huang… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
The defining problem in frustrated quantum magnetism, the ground state of the nearest-
neighbor S= 1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on the kagome lattice, has defied all …

Nature of the Spin-Liquid Ground State of the Heisenberg Model on the Kagome Lattice

S Depenbrock, IP McCulloch, U Schollwöck - Physical review letters, 2012 - APS
We perform a density-matrix renormalization group (DMRG) study of the S= 1 2 Heisenberg
antiferromagnet on the kagome lattice to identify the conjectured spin liquid ground state …

Competing electronic orders on kagome lattices at van Hove filling

WS Wang, ZZ Li, YY Xiang, QH Wang - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter …, 2013 - APS
The electronic orders in Hubbard models on a kagome lattice at van Hove filling are of
intense current interest and debate. We study this issue using the singular-mode functional …

Gapless quantum spin liquid ground state in the two-dimensional spin-1/2 triangular antiferromagnet YbMgGaO4

Y Li, H Liao, Z Zhang, S Li, F Jin, L Ling, L Zhang… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Quantum spin liquid (QSL) is a novel state of matter which refuses the conventional spin
freezing even at 0 K. Experimentally searching for the structurally perfect candidates is a big …

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 …

Gapless spin-liquid phase in the kagome spin- Heisenberg antiferromagnet

Y Iqbal, F Becca, S Sorella, D Poilblanc - Physical Review B—Condensed …, 2013 - APS
We study the energy and the static spin structure factor of the ground state of the spin-1/2
quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnetic model on the kagome lattice. By the iterative …

Chiral spin liquid and emergent anyons in a Kagome lattice Mott insulator

B Bauer, L Cincio, BP Keller, M Dolfi, G Vidal… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Topological phases in frustrated quantum spin systems have fascinated researchers for
decades. One of the earliest proposals for such a phase was the chiral spin liquid, a bosonic …