Spin glasses enter the quantum regime

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Abstract
Spin glasses are among the most interesting and complicated forms of condensed matter. The study of these magnetic systems, which lack any conventional long-range order, has justifiably engrossed many experimental and theoretical physicists over the last two decades. With rare exceptions, this work has been in a regime where the quantum-mechanical nature of the microscopic constituents could be ignored and the collective properties of the sample were essentially classical. Understanding the experimental properties of spin glasses then became a problem – albeit a difficult one – in classical statistical mechanics.

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