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most citedGeometrical frustration versus Kitaev interactions in BaCo(AsO)

77 citations · 190 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cond-mat.str-el2026

Energetics of fractional anomalous Hall crystals in rhombohedral graphene

Félix Desrochers, Ashvin Vishwanath

Fractional anomalous Hall crystals (FAHCs) replicate the topological order of the fractional quantum Hall effect in the continuum without requiring any external magnetic field. The…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Topological phonons in anomalous Hall crystals

Mark R. Hirsbrunner, Félix Desrochers, Joe Huxford +1

Recent experiments on few-layer graphene structures have reported indirect signatures of anomalous Hall crystals (AHCs), but the need for a top gate to stabilize the phase preclude…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Quantum Fisher Information as a Thermal Probe in Frustrated Magnets through Insights from Quantum Spin Ice

Chengkang Zhou, Zhengbang Zhou, Félix Desrochers +2

Quantum Fisher information (QFI) is a measure of multipartite entanglement accessible via inelastic neutron scattering. Here we demonstrate that QFI reveals thermal and dynamical p…

cond-mat.str-el2025★ 3 cited

Electronic Crystal Phases in the Presence of Non-Uniform Berry Curvature and Tunable Berry Flux: The -Jellium model

Félix Desrochers, Joe Huxford, Mark R. Hirsbrunner +1

Recent experiments on multilayer graphene systems have rekindled interest in electronic crystal phases in two dimensions -- but now for phases enriched by non-trivial quantum geome…

cond-mat.str-el2025★ 2 cited

Quantum Spin Liquids in Pyrochlore Magnets With Non-Kramers Local Moments

Tony An, Félix Desrochers, Yong Baek Kim

Numerous experiments on pyrochlore oxides Pr(Zr, Sn, Hf, Ir)O with non-Kramers Pr ions suggest that they support a quantum spin liquid (QSL) ground state, but th…

cond-mat.str-el2025★ 1 cited

Elastic Response and Instabilities of Anomalous Hall Crystals

Félix Desrochers, Mark R. Hirsbrunner, Joe Huxford +3

Anomalous Hall crystals (AHCs) are exotic phases of matter that simultaneously break continuous translation symmetry and exhibit the quantum anomalous Hall effect. AHCs have recent…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 3 cited

Magnetic Field Response of Dipolar-Octupolar Quantum Spin Ice

Zhengbang Zhou, Félix Desrochers, Yong Baek Kim

Dipolar-octupolar (DO) pyrochlore systems Ce(Zr,Sn,Hf)O have garnered much attention as recent investigations suggest that they may stabilize a novel quantum spin ice (…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 10 cited

Emergent photons and fractionalized excitations in a quantum spin liquid

Bin Gao, Félix Desrochers, David W. Tam +6

A quantum spin liquid (QSL) arises from a highly entangled superposition of many degenerate classical ground states in a frustrated magnet, and is characterized by emergent gauge f…

cond-mat.str-el2024

Quantum Fluctuations Suppress the Critical Fields in BaCo(AsO)

Shiva Safari, William Bateman-Hemphill, Asimpunya Mitra +10

Early efforts to realize exotic quantum ground states in frustrated magnets focused on frustration arising from the lattice geometry alone. Attention has shifted to bond-dependent…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 7 cited

Finite Temperature Dynamics in 0-Flux and -Flux Quantum Spin Ice: Self-Consistent Exclusive Boson Approach

Félix Desrochers, Yong Baek Kim

Quantum spin ice (QSI) is an emblematic three-dimensional quantum spin liquid (QSL) on the pyrochlore lattice that hosts gapless photon-like modes and spinon excitations. De…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 8 cited

A pseudofermion functional renormalization group study of dipolar-octupolar pyrochlore magnets

Li Ern Chern, Félix Desrochers, Yong Baek Kim +1

Motivated by recent experiments on CeZrO that reveal a dynamic, liquid-like ground state, we study the nearest neighbor XYZ Hamiltonian of dipolar-octupolar pyrochlore…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 6 cited

Electric field control of a quantum spin liquid in weak Mott insulators

Daniel J. Schultz, Alexandre Khoury, Félix Desrochers +3

The triangular lattice Hubbard model at strong coupling, whose effective spin model contains both Heisenberg and ring exchange interactions, exhibits a rich phase diagram as the ra…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 3 cited

Fermi Surface Bosonization for Non-Fermi Liquids

SangEun Han, Félix Desrochers, Yong Baek Kim

Understanding non-Fermi liquids in dimensions higher than one remains one of the most formidable challenges in modern condensed matter physics. These systems, characterized by an a…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 1 cited

Fractional matter coupled to the emergent gauge field in a quantum spin ice

Victor Porée, Han Yan, Félix Desrochers +7

Electronic spins can form long-range entangled phases of condensed matter named quantum spin liquids. Their existence is conceptualized in models of two- or three-dimensional frust…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 19 cited

Spectroscopic signatures of fractionalization in octupolar quantum spin ice

Félix Desrochers, Yong Baek Kim

Recent investigations on the dipolar-octupolar compounds CeZrO and CeSnO suggest that they may stabilize so-called -flux octupolar quantum spin ice (-…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 24 cited

Symmetry fractionalization in the gauge mean-field theory of quantum spin ice

Félix Desrochers, Li Ern Chern, Yong Baek Kim

Symmetry fractionalization is a ubiquitous feature of topologically ordered states that can be used to classify different symmetry-enriched topological phases and reveal some of th…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 77 cited

Geometrical frustration versus Kitaev interactions in BaCo(AsO)

Thomas Halloran, Félix Desrochers, Emily Z. Zhang +12

Recently, Co-based honeycomb magnets have been proposed as promising candidate materials to host the Kitaev spin liquid state. One of the front-runners is BaCo(AsO) (BC…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 26 cited

Competing and dipolar-octupolar quantum spin liquids on the pyrochlore lattice: application to CeZrO

Félix Desrochers, Li Ern Chern, Yong Baek Kim

Recent experiments on the dipolar-octupolar pyrochlore compound CeZrO indicate that it may realize a three-dimensional quantum spin liquid (QSL). In particular, the ana…