A Field Guide to Spin Liquids
File(s)
Working paper
Author(s)
Knolle, J
Moessner, R
Type
Working Paper
Abstract
Spin liquids are collective phases of quantum matter which have eluded discovery in correlated magnetic materials for over half a century. Theoretical models of these enigmatic topological phases are no longer in short supply. In experiment there also exist plenty of promising candidate materials for their realisation. One of the central challenges for the clear diagnosis of a spin liquid has been to connect the two. From that perspective, this review discusses characteristic features in experiment, resulting from the unusual properties of spin liquids. This takes us to thermodynamic, spectroscopic, transport, and other experiments on a search for traces of emergent gauge fields, spinons, Majorana Fermions and other fractionalised particles.
Date Issued
2019-01-01
Copyright Statement
© 2018 The Author(s).
Identifier
http://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02037v1
Subjects
cond-mat.str-el
Notes
17 pages, 3 figures; to appear in Annual Reviews of Condensed Matter Physics