scholarly journals Evidence for a spinon Fermi surface in the triangular S=1 quantum spin liquid Ba3NiSb2O9

2017 ◽  
Vol 95 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Fåk ◽  
S. Bieri ◽  
E. Canévet ◽  
L. Messio ◽  
C. Payen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fermi Surface ◽  
Quantum Spin ◽  
Spin Liquid ◽  
Quantum Spin Liquid

scholarly journals Magnetic field-induced intermediate quantum spin liquid with a spinon Fermi surface

2019 ◽  
Vol 116 (25) ◽  
pp. 12199-12203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niravkumar D. Patel ◽  
Nandini Trivedi
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Fermi Surface ◽  
Intermediate Phase ◽  
Quantum Spin ◽  
Spin Liquid ◽  
Spin Correlations ◽  
Density Matrix Renormalization ◽  
Static Spin ◽  
Kitaev Model ◽  
Quantum Spin Liquid

The Kitaev model with an applied magnetic field in the H∥[111] direction shows two transitions: from a nonabelian gapped quantum spin liquid (QSL) to a gapless QSL at Hc1≃0.2K and a second transition at a higher field Hc2≃0.35K to a gapped partially polarized phase, where K is the strength of the Kitaev exchange interaction. We identify the intermediate phase to be a gapless U(1) QSL and determine the spin structure function S(k) and the Fermi surface ϵFS(k) of the gapless spinons using the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) method for large honeycomb clusters. Further calculations of static spin-spin correlations, magnetization, spin susceptibility, and finite temperature-specific heat and entropy corroborate the gapped and gapless nature of the different field-dependent phases. In the intermediate phase, the spin-spin correlations decay as a power law with distance, indicative of a gapless phase.

scholarly journals Evidence for a spinon Fermi surface in a triangular-lattice quantum-spin-liquid candidate

Nature ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 540 (7634) ◽  
pp. 559-562 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yao Shen ◽  
Yao-Dong Li ◽  
Hongliang Wo ◽  
Yuesheng Li ◽  
Shoudong Shen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fermi Surface ◽  
Triangular Lattice ◽  
Quantum Spin ◽  
Spin Liquid ◽  
Lattice Quantum ◽  
Quantum Spin Liquid

scholarly journals Correlation holes and slow dynamics induced by fractional statistics in gapped quantum spin liquids

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Hart ◽  
Yuan Wan ◽  
Claudio Castelnovo
Keyword(s):  
Transport Properties ◽  
Realistic Model ◽  
Feedback Mechanism ◽  
Quantum Spin ◽  
Spin Liquid ◽  
Spin Liquids ◽  
Slow Dynamics ◽  
Temperature Dependent ◽  
Quantum Spin Liquids ◽  
Quantum Spin Liquid

AbstractRealistic model Hamiltonians for quantum spin liquids frequently exhibit a large separation of energy scales between their elementary excitations. At intermediate, experimentally relevant temperatures, some excitations are sparse and hop coherently, whereas others are thermally incoherent and dense. Here, we study the interplay of two such species of quasiparticle, dubbed spinons and visons, which are subject to nontrivial mutual statistics – one of the hallmarks of quantum spin liquid behaviour. Our results for $${{\mathbb{Z}}}_{2}$$ Z 2 quantum spin liquids show an intriguing feedback mechanism, akin to the Nagaoka effect, whereby spinons become localised on temperature-dependent patches of expelled visons. This phenomenon has important consequences for the thermodynamic and transport properties of the system, as well as for its response to quenches in temperature. We argue that these effects can be measured in experiments and may provide viable avenues for obtaining signatures of quantum spin liquid behaviour.

scholarly journals Gapless Quantum Spin Liquid in the Triangular System Sr3CuSb2O9

2020 ◽  
Vol 125 (26) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Kundu ◽  
Aga Shahee ◽  
Atasi Chakraborty ◽  
K. M. Ranjith ◽  
B. Koo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Spin ◽  
Spin Liquid ◽  
Triangular System ◽  
Quantum Spin Liquid

scholarly journals Giant phonon anomalies in the proximate Kitaev quantum spin liquid α-RuCl3

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Haoxiang Li ◽  
T. T. Zhang ◽  
A. Said ◽  
G. Fabbris ◽  
D. G. Mazzone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Phonon ◽  
Energy Scale ◽  
Quantum Spin ◽  
Majorana Fermion ◽  
Spin Liquid ◽  
Optical Phonons ◽  
Large Intensity ◽  
Topological Quantum ◽  
Topological State ◽  
Quantum Spin Liquid

AbstractThe Kitaev quantum spin liquid epitomizes an entangled topological state, for which two flavors of fractionalized low-energy excitations are predicted: the itinerant Majorana fermion and the Z2 gauge flux. It was proposed recently that fingerprints of fractional excitations are encoded in the phonon spectra of Kitaev quantum spin liquids through a novel fractional-excitation-phonon coupling. Here, we detect anomalous phonon effects in α-RuCl3 using inelastic X-ray scattering with meV resolution. At high temperature, we discover interlaced optical phonons intercepting a transverse acoustic phonon between 3 and 7 meV. Upon decreasing temperature, the optical phonons display a large intensity enhancement near the Kitaev energy, JK~8 meV, that coincides with a giant acoustic phonon softening near the Z2 gauge flux energy scale. These phonon anomalies signify the coupling of phonon and Kitaev magnetic excitations in α-RuCl3 and demonstrates a proof-of-principle method to detect anomalous excitations in topological quantum materials.

scholarly journals Signatures of a gearwheel quantum spin liquid in a spin- 12 pyrochlore molybdate Heisenberg antiferromagnet

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasir Iqbal ◽  
Tobias Müller ◽  
Kira Riedl ◽  
Johannes Reuther ◽  
Stephan Rachel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Spin ◽  
Spin Liquid ◽  
Heisenberg Antiferromagnet ◽  
Quantum Spin Liquid
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