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We present an extensive overview of the phase diagram, spin-wave excitations, and finite-temperature transitions of the anisotropic-exchange magnets on an ideal nearest-neighbor triangular lattice. We investigate transitions between five…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-23 P. A. Maksimov , Zhenyue Zhu , Steven R. White , A. L. Chernyshev

The Kitaev model is an exactly solvable quantum spin model within the language of the constrained real fermions. In spite of numerous studies along special magnetic-field orientations, there is a limited amount of knowledge on the complete…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-15 F. Yılmaz , A. P. Kampf , S. K. Yip

A central question on Kitaev materials is the effects of additional couplings on the Kitaev model which is proposed to be a candidate for realizing topological quantum computations. However, two spatial dimension typically suffers the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-26 Wang Yang , Alberto Nocera , Ian Affleck

Motivated by recent experiments on $\beta-$Li$_2$IrO$_3$, we study the phase diagram of the Heisenberg-Kitaev model on a three dimensional lattice of tri-coordinated Ir$^{4+}$, dubbed the hyperhoneycomb lattice by Takagi et. al. The lattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-01-22 Eric Kin-Ho Lee , Robert Schaffer , Subhro Bhattacharjee , Yong Baek Kim

Recently, it has been proposed that higher-spin analogues of the Kitaev interactions $K>0$ may also occur in a number of materials with strong Hund's and spin-orbit coupling. In this work, we use Lanczos diagonalization and density matrix…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-26 Wen-Long You , Gaoyong Sun , Jie Ren , Wing Chi Yu , Andrzej M. Oleś

We present a detailed analysis of the Kitaev--Heisenberg model on a single hexagon. The energy spectra and spin--spin correlations obtained using exact diagonalisation indicate quantum phase transitions between antiferromagnetic and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-30 Dorota Gotfryd , Andrzej M. Oleś

An effective model in the isolated dimer limit of the Kitaev-type model on a decorated honeycomb lattice is investigated at finite temperature. The ground state of this model is exactly shown to be a chiral spin liquid with spontaneous…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-19 Joji Nasu , Yukitoshi Motome

The interplay among anisotropic magnetic terms, such as the bond-dependent Kitaev interactions and single-ion anisotropy, plays a key role in stabilizing the finite-temperature ferromagnetism in the two-dimensional compound $\rm{CrSiTe_3}$.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-05 Zongsheng Zhou , Ken Chen , Qiang Luo , Hong-Gang Luo , Jize Zhao

We investigate the hole-doped Kitaev-Heisenberg ($t$-$J$-$K$) model on a two-leg ladder geometry using the density-matrix renormalization group (DMRG). We first consider the behavior of the antiferromagnetic Kitaev (AFK) spin-liquid phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-13 Bradraj Pandey , Bo Xiao , Satoshi Okamoto , Gonzalo Alvarez , Gábor B. Halász , Elbio Dagotto , Pontus Laurell

The triangular-lattice Fermi-Hubbard model has been extensively investigated in the literature due to its connection to chiral spin states and unconventional superconductivity. Previous simulations of the ground state of the doped system…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-02 Vinicius Zampronio , Tommaso Macrì

Kitaev's honeycomb-lattice spin-$1/2$ model has become a paradigmatic example for $\mathbb{Z}_2$ quantum spin liquids, both gapped and gapless. Here we study the fate of these spin-liquid phases in differently stacked bilayer versions of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-03 Urban F. P. Seifert , Julian Gritsch , Erik Wagner , Darshan G. Joshi , Wolfram Brenig , Matthias Vojta , Kai P. Schmidt

We study an extended Kitaev-Heisenberg model including additional anisotropic couplings by using two-dimensional density-matrix renormalization group method. Calculating the gound-state energy, entanglement entropy, and spin-spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-02-20 Kazuya Shinjo , Shigetoshi Sota , Takami Tohyama

Making use of infinite projected entangled pair states, we investigate the ground state phase diagram of the nearest-neighbor spin-1 bilinear-biquadratic Heisenberg model on the triangular lattice. In agreement with previous studies, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-28 Ido Niesen , Philippe Corboz

The Kitaev model, whose ground state is a quantum spin liquid (QSL), was originally conceived for spin $S=1/2$ moments on a honeycomb lattice. In recent years, the model has been extended to higher $S$ from both theoretical and experimental…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-30 Kiyu Fukui , Yasuyuki Kato , Joji Nasu , Yukitoshi Motome

Emergence of multiple topological phases with a series of Chern numbers, $\pm 1$, $\mp 1$, $\pm 2$, $\mp 2$, $\pm 3$ and $\mp 4$, are observed in a ferromagnetic Kitaev-Heisenberg-spin-anisotropic model on honeycomb lattice with further…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-06 Moumita Deb , Asim Kumar Ghosh

The Kitaev model, which hosts a quantum spin liquid (QSL) in the ground state, was originally defined on a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice, but can be straightforwardly extended to any tricoordinate lattices in any spatial dimensions. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-29 Kiyu Fukui , Yasuyuki Kato , Yukitoshi Motome

Motivated by the possibility of finding a bosonic quantum spin liquid in the integer spin-$S$ Heisenberg-Kitaev model on the honeycomb lattice, we derive a Schwinger boson mean field theory involving both singlet and triplet pairing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-19 Arnaud Ralko , Jaime Merino

The Kitaev-Heisenberg model on the honeycomb lattice has been studied for the purpose of finding exotic states such as quantum spin liquid and topological orders. On the kagome lattice, in spite of a spin-liquid ground state in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-31 Katsuhiro Morita , Masanori Kishimoto , Takami Tohyama

The emergence of chiral superconductivity from strongly correlated Mott regimes in purely repulsive, genuinely two-dimensional fermionic systems poses a key challenge, particularly when topology and superconducting long-range order must be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-10 Sen Niu , D. N. Sheng , Yang Peng

We investigate the phase diagram of the \tj Model on a triangular lattice using a Variational Monte-Carlo approach. We use an extended set of Gutzwiller projected fermionic trial wave-functions allowing for simultaneous magnetic and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Cédric Weber , Andreas Laeuchli , Frédéric Mila , Thierry Giamarchi