Probing the Quantum Noise of the Spinon Fermi Surface with NV Centers

Abstract

We study the transverse electrical conductivity and the corresponding magnetic noise of a two-dimensional U(1) spin liquid state with a spinon Fermi surface. We show that in the quasi-static regime these responses have the same wave-vector dependence as that of a metal but are reduced by a dimensionless pre-factor controlled by the ratio of orbital diamagnetic susceptibilities of the spinons and chargons, correcting previous work. We estimate that this quasi-static regime is comfortably accessed by the typical NV center splittings of a few GHz and estimate that the expected T1 times for an NV center placed above candidate materials, such as the organic dmit and ET salts, monolayer 1T-TaS2/Se2, would range from several tens to a few hundred milliseconds.

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• Theory of a continuous Mott transition in two dimensions
• Robustness of the thermal Hall effect close to half-quantization in a field-induced spin liquid state
• Gapless excitations in the ground state of 1T-TaS${}_2$
• Qubit relaxation from evanescent-wave Johnson noise
• The universal shear conductivity of Fermi liquids and spinon Fermi surface states and its detection via spin qubit noise magnetometry

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• Quantum noise spectroscopy of dynamical critical phenomena
• Proposal to detect emergent gauge field and its Meissner effect in spin liquids using NV Centers