Exotic phases of matter and their characterization: quantum spin liquids in highly-frustrated magnets
Abstract: For most of the last century, condensed matter physics has been dominated by the Landau's symmetry breaking theory. In this respect, by lowering the temperature, almost all forms of matter reorganize in order to generate some kind of long-range order (well known examples are given by the liquid-solid transition or the paramagnetic-ferromagnetic one). However, in the recent past, there is a clear evidence for several cases that escape this standard description and keep a disordered nature down to very low temperatures.