An international team of scientists led by Rice University's Pengcheng Dai has confirmed the existence of emergent photons ...

The quantum spin liquid is the latest entry in that bestiary of cryptid states. Its atoms don’t freeze into any sort of ordered state, and they’re constantly in flux.

To confirm they indeed had a quantum spin liquid on their hands, the team cooled their samples, revealing a characteristic dynamic magnetism all the way down to 19 mK. They used a number of different ...

Semeghini et al. detected signatures of a toric code–type quantum spin liquid in a two-dimensional array of Rydberg atoms held in optical tweezers. —JS. Abstract Quantum spin liquids, exotic phases of ...

An elusive form of matter called a quantum spin liquid isn’t a liquid, and it doesn’t spin — but it sure is quantum. Predicted nearly 50 years ago, quantum spin liquids have long evaded ...

Quantum spin liquid, in case you are unaware, is a theoretical special state of matter where tiny magnetic particles don’t settle in a fixed pattern. It is believed this can even occur at the ...

NIST has confirmed long-standing suspicions among physicists that electrons in a crystalline structure called a kagome (kah-go-may) lattice can form a “spin liquid,” a novel quantum state of matter in ...

This antiferromagnetic material closely resembles the ideal Kitaev honeycomb model for a spin liquid, and undergoes a transition to a spin liquid at a temperature of 0.5 K in the presence of a strong ...

Apr. 16, 2021 — A quantum spin liquid is a state of matter in which interacting quantum spins do not align even at lowest temperatures, but remain disordered. Research on this state has been ...

The simplest explanation is often the best - this also applies to fundamental science. Researchers from TU Wien and Toho University recently showed that a supposed quantum spin liquid can be ...