{"id":176351,"date":"2023-11-20T04:23:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T10:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/three-pronged-approach-discerns-qualities-of-quantum-spin-liquids"},"modified":"2023-11-20T04:23:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T10:23:31","slug":"three-pronged-approach-discerns-qualities-of-quantum-spin-liquids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/three-pronged-approach-discerns-qualities-of-quantum-spin-liquids","title":{"rendered":"Three-pronged approach discerns qualities of quantum spin liquids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/three-pronged-approach-discerns-qualities-of-quantum-spin-liquids3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1973, physicist Phil Anderson hypothesized that the quantum spin liquid, or QSL, state existed on some triangular lattices, but he lacked the tools to delve deeper. Fifty years later, a team led by researchers associated with the Quantum Science Center headquartered at the Department of Energy\u2019s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has confirmed the presence of QSL behavior in a new material with this structure, KYbSe<sub>2<\/sub>.<\/p>\n<p>QSLs\u2014an unusual state of matter controlled by interactions among entangled, or intrinsically linked, magnetic atoms called spins\u2014excel at stabilizing quantum mechanical activity in KYbSe<sub>2<\/sub> and other delafossites. These materials are prized for their layered triangular lattices and promising properties that could contribute to the construction of high-quality superconductors and quantum computing components.<\/p>\n<p>The paper, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-023-02259-1\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Physics<\/i>, features researchers from ORNL; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Los Alamos National Laboratory; SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory; the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; the University of Missouri; the University of Minnesota; Stanford University; and the Rosario Physics Institute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1973, physicist Phil Anderson hypothesized that the quantum spin liquid, or QSL, state existed on some triangular lattices, but he lacked the tools to delve deeper. Fifty years later, a team led by researchers associated with the Quantum Science Center headquartered at the Department of Energy\u2019s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has confirmed the presence [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}