Fragile spin liquid in three dimensions

IF 3.7 2区物理与天体物理 Q1 Physics and Astronomy

Physical Review B Pub Date : 2025-04-09 DOI:10.1103/physrevb.111.134413

Anna Fancelli, R. Flores-Calderón, Owen Benton, Bella Lake, Roderich Moessner, Johannes Reuther

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Abstract

Motivated by the recent appearance of the trillium lattice in the search for materials hosting spin liquids, we study the ground state of the classical Heisenberg model on its line graph, the trilline lattice. We find that this network realizes the recently proposed notion of a fragile spin liquid in three dimensions. Additionally, we analyze the Ising case and argue for a possible Z2 quantum spin liquid phase in the corresponding quantum dimer model. Like the well-known U(1) spin liquids, the classical phase hosts moment fractionalization evidenced by the diluted lattice, but unlike those, it exhibits exponential decay in both spin correlations and interactions between fractionalized moments. This provides an instance of a purely short-range correlated classical Heisenberg spin liquid in three dimensions.

Published by the American Physical Society

2025

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Physical Review B 物理-物理：凝聚态物理

CiteScore

6.70

自引率

32.40%

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审稿时长

3.0 months

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