Abstract
Quantum spin liquids are a class of magnetic ground states reliant on non-local entanglement. Motivated by recent advances in the control of ultracold polar molecules and the development of dipolar quantum materials, we show that dipolar interactions between S = 1/2 moments stabilize spin liquids on the triangular and kagome lattices. In the latter case, the moments spontaneously break time-reversal, forming a chiral spin liquid with robust edge modes and emergent semions. We propose a simple route toward synthesizing a dipolar Heisenberg antiferromagnet from lattice-trapped polar molecules using only a single pair of rotational states and a constant electric field.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 405-410 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Nature Physics |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| State | Published - Apr 1 2018 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Physics and Astronomy