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Computational Sleuthing Confirms First 3D Quantum Spin Liquid

A 3D representation of the spin-excitation continuum — a possible hallmark of a quantum spin liquid — observed in 2019 in a single crystal sample of cerium zirconium pyrochlore. (Image by Tong Chen/Rice University)

Numerical detective work verifies liquidlike magnetic order in prior experiments. Computational detective work by U.S. and German physicists has confirmed cerium zirconium pyrochlore is a 3D quantum spin liquid.

Despite the name, quantum spin liquids are solid materials in which quantum entanglement and the geometric arrangement of atoms frustrate the natural tendency of electrons to magnetically order themselves in relation to one another...

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