# A new high-temperature quantum spin liquid with polaron spins

## TL;DR

This paper reports the experimental realization of an almost ideal quantum spin liquid state in 1T-TaS2, characterized by gapless spin dynamics and no magnetic order down to very low temperatures, revealing a new quantum spin state.

## Contribution

It demonstrates the existence of a nearly perfect quantum spin liquid in a real material, with detailed experimental evidence of gapless spin dynamics and emergent quantum order.

## Key findings

- Gapless quantum spin liquid dynamics observed down to 70 mK.
- No long-range magnetic order detected in the system.
- Emergence of a new gapless quantum spin state below 55 K.

## Abstract

The existence of a quantum spin liquid (QSL) in which quantum fluctuations of spins are sufficiently strong to preclude spin ordering down to zero temperature was originally proposed theoretically more than 40 years ago, but its experimental realisation turned out to be very elusive. Here we report on an almost ideal spin liquid state that appears to be realized by atomic-cluster spins on the triangular lattice of a charge-density wave (CDW) state of 1T-TaS$_2$. In this system, the charge excitations have a well-defined gap of $\sim 0.3$ eV, while nuclear magnetic quadrupole resonance and muon spin relaxation experiments reveal that the spins show gapless quantum spin liquid dynamics and no long range magnetic order down to 70~mK. Canonical $T^{2}$ power-law temperature dependence of the spin relaxation dynamics characteristic of a QSL is observed from 200~K to $T_f= 55$ K. Below this temperature we observe a new gapless state with reduced density of spin excitations and high degree of local disorder signifying new quantum spin order emerging from the QSL.