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We propose to use null vectors in conformal field theories to derive model Hamiltonians of quantum spin chains and corresponding ground state wave function(s). The approach is quite general, and we illustrate it by constructing a family of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-19 Anne E. B. Nielsen , J. Ignacio Cirac , German Sierra

Spin-orbital generalization of Kitaev model provides a robust extension to the original Kitaev model. However, real materials often exhibit competing interactions that break exact solvability which can give rise to new phases. Motivated by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-07 Ivan Dutta , Aayush Vijayvargia , Anamitra Mukherjee , Onur Erten , Kush Saha

A recent article [Phys. Rev. X 15, 011047 (2025)] utilizes group-equivariant convolutional neural networks to study the ground state of the kagome Heisenberg antiferromagnet. On the largest finite-size cluster studied to date ($N=108$), the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-29 Helia Kamal , Dominik Kufel , DinhDuy Vu , Chris R. Laumann , Norman Y. Yao

Motivated by the spin-momentum locking of electrons at the boundaries of topological insulators, we study a one-dimensional system of spin-orbit coupled massless Dirac electrons with $s$-wave superconducting pairing. As a result of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-18 Adithi Udupa , Abhishek Banerjee , K. Sengupta , Diptiman Sen

We study the possibility to realize Majorana zero mode that's robust and may be easily manipulated for braiding in quantum computing in the ground state of the Kitaev model in this work. To achieve this we first apply a uniform [111]…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-13 Lu Yang , Jia-Xing Zhang , Shuang Liang , Wei Chen , Qiang-Hua Wang

The higher spin Kitaev model prominently features the extensive locally conserved quantities the same as the spin-$1/2$ Kitaev honeycomb model, although it is not exactly solvable. It remains an open question regarding the physical meaning…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-17 Han Ma

We investigate the von Neumann entanglement entropy and Schmidt gap in the ground state of the Kitaev model on the honeycomb lattice for square and cylindrical subsystems. We find that, for both the subsystems, the free-fermionic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-07-26 Saptarshi Mandal , Moitri Maiti , Vipin Kerala Varma

We investigate Majorana modes in a quantum spin chain with bond-dependent exchange interactions by studying its dynamics. Specifically, we consider two-time correlations for the Kitaev-Heisenberg (KH) Hamiltonian close to the so-called…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-27 Johannes Bjerlin , Anders S. Sørensen , Stephan Haas

Quantum spin liquids have been at the forefront of correlated electron research ever since their original proposal in 1973, and the realization that they belong to the broader class of intrinsic topological orders, along with the fractional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-26 Ioannis Rousochatzakis , Yuriy Sizyuk , Natalia B. Perkins

We study the ground state properties of the Heisenberg spin-1/2 chain with ferromagnetic nearest-neighbor and antiferromagnetic next-nearest-neighbor interactions using two approximate methods. One of them is the Jordan-Wigner mean-field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 D. V. Dmitriev , V. Ya. Krivnov

The quantum spin liquid states as a natural ground state of the Kitaev model has led to a quest for new materials candidates hosting Kitaev physics. Yet, there are very few material candidates in this category. Using a combination of $ab$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-29 Shishir Kumar Pandey , Qiangqiang Gu , Yihao Lin , Rajarshi Tiwari , Ji Feng

We demonstrate that spin-charge separation can occur in two dimensions and note its confluence with superconductivity, topology, gauge theory, and fault-tolerant quantum computation. We construct a microscopic Ising-like model and, at a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-06-07 Chetan Nayak , Kirill Shtengel

In this article, we study mathematically and numerically the ground states of three-component rotating spin-orbit coupled (SOC) spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates modeled by the coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations (CGPEs). Firstly, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Jing Wang , Wei Yang , Yongjun Yuan , Yong Zhang

We study the ground state and the magnetization process of a spin-1/2 $J_1$-$J_2$ model with a plaquette structure by using various methods. For small inter-plaquette interaction, this model is expected to have a spin-gap and we computed…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 H. T. Ueda , K. Totsuka

We investigate the real-time spin response of the $S=1$ Kitaev model upon stimuli of a pulsed magnetic field in one of the edges using the exact diagonalization method. It is found that the pulsed magnetic field has no effect on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-13 Akihisa Koga , Tetsuya Minakawa , Yuta Murakami , Joji Nasu

A huge number of independent true ground-state configurations is calculated for two-, three- and four-dimensional +- J spin-glass models. Using the genetic cluster-exact approximation method, system sizes up to N=20^2,8^3,6^4 spins are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Alexander K. Hartmann

We give a review on Poor Man's Majorana (PMM) modes, which are theoretically established in the minimal Kitaev chain implementation consisting of two grounded, spinless quantum dots (QDs) operating at the sweet spot condition, where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 J. E. Sanches , T. M. Sobreira , L. S. Ricco , M. S. Figueira , A. C. Seridonio

A combination of small-cluster exact-diagonalization calculations and a well-controlled approximative method is used to study the ground-state phase diagram of the spin-one-half Falicov-Kimball model extended by the spin-dependent on-site…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Pavol Farkasovsky , Hana Cencarikova

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model is zero-dimensional model simulating quantum chaos using interacting Majorana fermions.Previously proposals have been made to realize the SYK model in fermionic systems that can support majorana zero modes.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-13 Han-yuan Zuo , Zheng-xin Liu

We study the effect of site dilution in Kitaev's model. We derive an analytical solution of the dynamical spin correlation functions for arbitrary configurations of $Z_2$ fluxes. By incorporating this solution into classical Monte Carlo…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-26 Masafumi Udagawa