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Supplementing the Heisenberg model with a Hubbard-commuting kinetic of electrons adds to its spectrum without interference. One consequence is the precise incorporation of canonical linear spin wave theory within the time-dependent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-11 Rohit Hegde

Building upon the spin-1/2 Kitaev model on a honeycomb lattice, the Yao-Lee spin-orbital model provides exactly solvable quantum spin liquids with potentially better stability against perturbations due to the additional degree of freedom.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-21 Jiefu Cen , Hae-Young Kee

By using a numerically exact diagonalization technique and a block-extended version of the finite-temperature Lanczos method, we study thermodynamic properties of an $S=1/2$ Heisenberg model on the triangular lattice with an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-05 Kazuhiro Seki , Seiji Yunoki

I propose the emergence of the spin-orbital-coupled vector chirality in a non-frustrated Mott insulator with the strong spin-orbit coupling due to $ab$-plane's inversion-symmetry (IS) breaking. I derive the superexchange interactions for a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-10 Naoya Arakawa

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

Ordering of the classical Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the triangular lattice is studied by means of a mean-field calculation, a scaling argument and a Monte Carlo simulation, with special attention to its vortex degree of freedom. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Hikaru Kawamura , Atsushi Yamamoto , Tsuyoshi Okubo

In this study, we examine the thermodynamics and spin dynamics of spin-1/2 and spin-3/2 heptamers. Through an exact diagonalization of the isotropic Heisenberg Hamiltonian, we find the closed-form, analytical representations for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-30 A. Roxburgh , J. T. Haraldsen

We investigate the Hubbard model on the honeycomb lattice with intrinsic spin orbit interactions as a paradigm for two-dimensional topological band insulators in the presence of interactions. Applying a combination of Hartree-Fock theory,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-13 Stephan Rachel , Karyn Le Hur

An emergent Fermi surface in a Mott insulator, an exotic quantum spin liquid state, was suggested by Anderson in 1987. After a quick support for its existence in spin-half Heisenberg model in a square lattice in a RVB mean field theory,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-08-20 G. Baskaran , G. Santhosh , R. Shankar

Recent observations of novel spin-orbit coupled states have generated tremendous interest in $4d/5d$ transition metal systems. A prime example is the $J_{\text{eff}}=\frac{1}{2}$ state in iridate materials and $\alpha$-RuCl$_{3}$ that…

We study the spin-$1/2$ Heisenberg model on the triangular lattice with the nearest-neighbor $J_1 > 0$, the next-nearest-neighobr $J_2 > 0$ Heisenberg interactions, and the additional scalar chiral interaction $J_{\chi}(\vec{S}_i \times…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-16 Shou-Shu Gong , W. Zhu , J. -X. Zhu , D. N. Sheng , Kun Yang

Spin-orbital generalizations of Kitaev model, such as Yao-Lee model, have attracted recent attention due to their enhanced stability of spin liquid phases against perturbations. Motivated by microscopic calculations for the realization of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-30 Muhammad Akram , Aayush Vijayvargia , Hae-Young Kee , Onur Erten

We consider the spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on a bilayer honeycomb lattice including interlayer frustration in the presence of an external magnetic field. In the vicinity of the saturation field, we map the low-energy states…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-03-22 Taras Krokhmalskii , Vasyl Baliha , Oleg Derzhko , Jörg Schulenburg , Johannes Richter

Mott insulators with both spin and orbital degeneracy are pertinent to a large number of transition metal oxides. The intertwined spin and orbital fluctuations can lead to rather exotic phases such as quantum spin-orbital liquids. Here we…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-27 Zhenyu Zhou , Erhai Zhao , W. Vincent Liu

We develop anisotropic pseudo-spin antiferromagnetic Heisenberg models for monoclinically distorted double perovskites. We focus on these A$_2$BB'O$_6$ materials that have magnetic moments on the 4d or 5d transition metal B' ions, which…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-12-12 Tyler Dodds , Ting-Pong Choy , Yong Baek Kim

We study triangular lattice spin-1/2 system with antiferromagnetic Heisenberg and ring exchanges using variational approach focusing on possible realization of spin liquid states. Trial spin liquid wave functions are obtained by Gutzwiller…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Olexei I. Motrunich

We study spin-half and spin-one Heisenberg models in the limit where one dimensional (1-D) linear chains, with exchange constant J1, are weakly coupled in an anisotropic triangular lattice geometry. Results are obtained by means of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Pardini , R. R. P. Singh

We study, on the basis of the general entangled-plaquette variational ansatz, the ground-state properties of the spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on the triangular lattice. Our numerical estimates are in good agreement with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-19 Fabio Mezzacapo , J. Ignacio Cirac

We report a detailed study of a model Hamiltonian which exhibits a rich interplay of geometrical spin frustration, strong electronic correlations, and charge ordering. The character of the insulating phase depends on the magnitude of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 J. Merino , R. H. McKenzie , B. J. Powell

Cobaltates with 3$d$ based layered honeycomb structure were recently proposed as Kitaev magnets and putative candidates to host the long-sought Kitaev spin liquid. Here we present inelastic neutron scattering results down to 50 mK for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-18 Alaric L. Sanders , Richard A. Mole , Jiatu Liu , Alex J. Brown , Dehong Yu , Chris D. Ling , Stephan Rachel