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Spin and Charge Transport Mediated by Fractionalized Excitations

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2025-09-10 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We study charge and spin transport in systems composed of itinerant electrons and localized magnetic moments of a Kitaev quantum spin liquid (QSL) phase. For example, αRuCl3\alpha-{\rm RuCl}_3 either intrinsically doped or in proximity to graphene. Our analysis reveals distinct temperature-dependent transport behaviors due to the QSL gap and the Majorana excitation spectrum, which are greatly enhanced when the velocities of itinerant-electrons and QSL excitations become comparable. These transport characteristics could potentially be employed to reveal the fractionalized excitations of the spin liquid.

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@article{arxiv.2503.13590,
  title  = {Spin and Charge Transport Mediated by Fractionalized Excitations},
  author = {Alexey Ermakov and Alessandro Principi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.13590},
  year   = {2025}
}