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Materials manifesting the Kitaev model, characterized by bond-dependent interactions on a honeycomb lattice, can host exotic phenomena like quantum spin liquid states and topological magnetic excitations. However, finding such materials…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-31 Yiqing Gu , Yimeng Gu , Feiyang Liu , Seiko Ohira-Kawamura , Naoki Murai , Jun Zhao

Kitaev materials are promising materials for hosting quantum spin liquids and investigating the interplay of topological and symmetry-breaking phases. We use an unsupervised and interpretable machine-learning method, the tensorial-kernel…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-06 Ke Liu , Nicolas Sadoune , Nihal Rao , Jonas Greitemann , Lode Pollet

We investigate the interplay between spin-orbit coupling and electron-electron interactions on the honeycomb lattice combining the cellular dynamical mean-field theory and its real space extension with analytical approaches. We provide a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-28 Wei Wu , Stephan Rachel , Wu-Ming Liu , Karyn Le Hur

The Kitaev honeycomb model is a system allowing for experimentally realisable quantum computation with topological protection of quantum information. Practical implementation of quantum information processing typically relies on adiabatic,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 Omar Raii , Florian Mintert , Daniel Burgarth

Competing ground states may lead to topologically constrained excitations such as domain walls or quasiparticles, which govern metastable states and their dynamics. Domain walls and more exotic topological excitations are well studied in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-09 Carl Merrigan , Cristiano Nisoli , Yair Shokef

We determine the phase diagram of a bilayer, Yao-Lee spin-orbital model with inter-layer interactions (J), for several stackings and moir\'e superlattices. For AA stacking, a gapped Z2 quantum spin liquid phase emerges at a finite Jc. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-17 Emilian Nica , Muhammad Akram , Aayush Vijayvargia , Roderich Moessner , Onur Erten

We propose a theoretical model for a gapless spin liquid phase that may have been observed in a recent experiment on $\mathrm{H_3Li Ir_2 O_6}$. Despite the insulating and non-magnetic nature of the material, the specific heat coefficient…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-29 Kevin Slagle , Wonjune Choi , Li Ern Chern , Yong Baek Kim

Co$^{2+}$ ions in an octahedral crystal field, stabilise a j$_{eff}$ = 1/2 ground state with an orbital degree of freedom and have been recently put forward for realising Kitaev interactions, a prediction we have tested by investigating…

We introduce a spin-1/2 model in three dimensions which is a generalization of the well-known Kitaev model on a honeycomb lattice. Following Kitaev, we solve the model exactly by mapping it to a theory of non-interacting fermions in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Saptarshi Mandal , Naveen Surendran

Due to the combination of a substantial spin-orbit coupling and correlation effects, iridium oxides hold a prominent place in the search for novel quantum states of matter, including, e.g., Kitaev spin liquids and topological Weyl states.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-11 Vamshi M. Katukuri , Ravi Yadav , Liviu Hozoi , Satoshi Nishimoto , Jeroen van den Brink

We introduce a model of vortices in type-II superconductors with a four-fold anisotropy in the vortex-vortex interaction potential. Using numerical simulations we show that the vortex lattice undergoes structural transitions as the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-07-30 M. W. Olszewski , M. R. Eskildsen , C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

Inspired by the topological insulator circuit proposed and experimentally verified by Jia., et al. \cite{1}, we theoretically realized the topological Lieb lattice, a line centered square lattice with rich topological properties, in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Weiwei Zhu , Shanshan Hou , Yang Long , Hong Chen , Jie Ren

We explore the salient features of the `Kitaev ladder', a two-legged ladder version of the spin-1/2 Kitaev model on a honeycomb lattice, by mapping it to a one-dimensional fermionic p-wave superconducting system. We examine the connections…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-27 Wade DeGottardi , Diptiman Sen , Smitha Vishveshwara

We show that networks of topological nanowires can realize the physics of exactly solvable Kitaev spin models with two-body interactions. This connection arises from the description of the low-energy theory of both systems in terms of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-26 Graham Kells , Ville Lahtinen , Jiri Vala

Using quantum chemistry calculations we shed fresh light on the electronic structure and magnetic properties of RuCl3, a proposed realization of the honeycomb Kitaev spin model. It is found that the nearest-neighbor Kitaev exchange K is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-19 Ravi Yadav , Nikolay A. Bogdanov , Vamshi M. Katukuri , Satoshi Nishimoto , Jeroen van den Brink , Liviu Hozoi

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) form an extremely unusual magnetic state in which the spins are highly correlated and fluctuate coherently down to the lowest temperatures, but without symmetry breaking and without the formation of any static…

Owing to the unusual geometry of kagome lattices-lattices made of corner-sharing triangles-their electrons are useful for studying the physics of frustrated, correlated and topological quantum electronic states. In the presence of strong…

The exactly solvable spin-1/2 Kitaev model on a honeycomb lattice has drawn significant interest, as it offers a pathway to realizing the long-sought after quantum spin liquid. Building upon the Kitaev model, Yao and Lee introduced another…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-12 Derek Churchill , Emily Z. Zhang , Hae-Young Kee

In the field of quantum magnetism, the exactly solvable Kitaev honeycomb model serves as a paradigm for the fractionalization of spin degrees of freedom and the formation of $\mathbb{Z}_2$ quantum spin liquids. An intense experimental…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-07 Ciarán Hickey , Simon Trebst

Quantum spin liquid involves fractionalized quasipariticles such as spinons and visons. They are expressed as itinerant Majorana fermions and $Z_2$ fluxes in the Kitaev model with bond-dependent exchange interactions on a honeycomb spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-05 Y. Nagai , T. Jinno , Y. Yoshitake , J. Nasu , Y. Motome , M. Itoh , Y. Shimizu