Kitaev's exact solution approximated

N. P. Armitage

doi:10.1038/nmat4667

Kitaev's exact solution approximated

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2016-12-07 v1

Authors: N. P. Armitage

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Abstract

For 25 years condensed matter physicists have searched for a material that realizes a macroscopic quantum state of matter, the quantum spin liquid. Recent experiments show that the necessary interaction may be found in a family of hexagonal ruthenium based materials.

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@article{arxiv.1611.09991,
  title  = {Kitaev's exact solution approximated},
  author = {N. P. Armitage},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.09991},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Appeared as Nature Materials 15, 701-702 (2016); Commentary on A. Banerjee et al. Nature Materials 15, 733-740 (2016)

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