2018/04/05 by Johannes Knolle, Roderich Moessner · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #cond-mat.str-el
paper · pdf · doi:10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-031218-013401
published as Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys. 10, 451-472 (2019) · 17 pages, 3 figures; to appear in Annual Reviews of Condensed Matter Physics
arxiv created 2018/04/05 · arxiv updated 2019/03/28
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.