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Title: Quantum spin liquids

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  1. Institute for Quantum Matter and Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
  2. Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
  3. Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
  4. Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
  5. Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA.
  6. Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

Spin liquids are quantum phases of matter with a variety of unusual features arising from their topological character, including “fractionalization”—elementary excitations that behave as fractions of an electron. Although there is not yet universally accepted experimental evidence that establishes that any single material has a spin liquid ground state, in the past few years a number of materials have been shown to exhibit distinctive properties that are expected of a quantum spin liquid. Here, we review theoretical and experimental progress in this area.

Research Organization:
Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Institute for Quantum Matter (IQM); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-06CH11357; SC0019331; DMR-1608055; DMR-1608505
OSTI ID:
1591986
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1601429
Journal Information:
Science, Journal Name: Science Vol. 367 Journal Issue: 6475; ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher:
AAASCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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