A team of researchers from Switzerland and France and theoretical physicists in Canada and the U.S., including Rice University, believe they have found evidence of a theorized quantum phenomenon ...

A team of researchers affiliated with UNIST has succeeded in identifying traces of the Kitaev quantum spin liquid (QSL) using light. The Kitaev QSL represents a special quantum state that could ...

Quantum spin liquids represent a groundbreaking concept in quantum physics and materials science. Unlike classical magnetic materials, where electron spins align in an orderly pattern at low ...

Animation showing how magnetic frustration leads to frustrated magnets and possibly quantum spin liquids. (Animation: Wikimedia Commons, CC SA 4.0) The RVB state, proposed by physicist P.W. Anderson, ...

In a groundbreaking experiment, physicists observed a classic liquid phenomenon—capillary instability—in a quantum gas for ...

The researchers were able to precisely confirm these predictions of theoretical quantum physics in their nanographene spin chains. The corresponding findings have just been published in the latest ...

Michael Hermele is a theoretical physicist interested in quantum phases of matter ... Underconstrained Magnetism and Chiral Spin Liquid,” M. Hermele, V. Gurarie and A. M. Rey. Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, ...

His current areas of focus include the theory of quantum liquid crystalline phases of highly ... temperature superconductivity, the theory of spin liquids and other fractionalized quantum phases ...