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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

The Kitaev quantum spin liquid displays the fractionalization of quantum spins into Majorana fermions. The emergent Majorana edge current is predicted to manifest itself in the form of a finite thermal Hall effect, a feature commonly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-30 Y. Kasahara , K. Sugii , T. Ohnishi , M. Shimozawa , M. Yamashita , N. Kurita , H. Tanaka , J. Nasu , Y. Motome , T. Shibauchi , Y. Matsuda

Quantum matter provides an effective vacuum out of which arise emergent particles not corresponding to any experimentally detected elementary particle. Topological quantum materials in particular have become a focus of intense research in…

We study a honeycomb Kondo lattice model in which Dirac conduction electrons are coupled to a spin-1/2 Kitaev quantum spin liquid. For weak Kondo coupling, the spins fractionalize into Majorana fermions comprising a gapless Dirac mode and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-30 Jennifer Lin , Frank Krüger

Quantum spin liquids are long-range entangled states of matter with emergent gauge fields and fractionalized excitations. While candidate materials, such as the Kitaev honeycomb ruthenate $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$, show magnetic order at low…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-16 I. Rousochatzakis , S. Kourtis , J. Knolle , R. Moessner , N. B. Perkins

We study the effects of the flux configurations on the emergent Majorana fermions in the $S=1/2$ Kitaev model on a honeycomb lattice, where quantum spins are fractionalized into itinerant Majorana fermions and localized fluxes. A quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-16 Akihisa Koga , Yuta Murakami , Joji Nasu

We analyse the dynamical response of a range of 3D Kitaev quantum spin-liquids, using lattice models chosen to explore the different possible low-energy spectra for gapless Majorana fermions, with either Fermi surfaces, nodal lines or Weyl…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-29 A. Smith , J. Knolle , D. L. Kovrizhin , J. T. Chalker , R. Moessner

In frustrated quantum magnetism, chiral spin liquids are a particularly intriguing subset of quantum spin liquids in which the fractionalized parton degrees of freedom form a Chern insulator. Here we study an exactly solvable spin-3/2 model…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-02 Tim Eschmann , Vatsal Dwivedi , Henry F. Legg , Ciarán Hickey , Simon Trebst

In the Kitaev honeycomb model, the quantum spin fractionalizes into itinerant Majorana and gauge flux spontaneously upon cooling, leading to rich experimental ramifications at finite temperature and an upsurge of research interest. In this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-07 Han Li , Dai-Wei Qu , Hao-Kai Zhang , Yi-Zhen Jia , Shou-Shu Gong , Yang Qi , Wei Li

We study the 3D Kitaev and Kitaev-Heisenberg models respectively on the hyperhoneycomb and hyperoctagon lattices, both at zero and finite-temperature, in the thermodynamic limit. Our analysis relies on advanced tensor network (TN)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-08 Saeed S. Jahromi , Hadi Yarloo , Roman Orus

Topological superconductors are novel classes of quantum condensed phases, characterized by topologically nontrivial structures of Cooper pairing states. On the surfaces of samples and in vortex cores of topological superconductors,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-06-03 Masatoshi Sato , Satoshi Fujimoto

Conventional quantum mechanics is described in terms of complex numbers. However, all physical quantities are real. This indicates, that the appearance of complex numbers in quantum mechanics may be the emergent phenomenon, i.e. complex…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 G. E. Volovik , M. A. Zubkov

Materials that break time-reversal or inversion symmetry possess nondegenerate electronic bands, which can touch at so-called Weyl points. The spinor eigenstates in the vicinity of a Weyl point exhibit a well-defined chirality $\pm 1$.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-24 Andy Knoll , Carsten Timm

Quantum spin liquids subject to a periodic drive can display fascinating non-equilibrium heating behavior because of their emergent fractionalized quasi-particles. Here, we investigate a driven Kitaev honeycomb model and examine the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-13 Hui-Ke Jin , Johannes Knolle , Michael Knap

The Kitaev model exhibits a canonical quantum spin liquid as a ground state and hosts two fractional quasiparticles, itinerant Majorana fermion and localized flux excitation. The former can carry heat and spin modulations in the quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-27 Joji Nasu , Yuta Murakami , Akihisa Koga

Condensed matter systems can host quasiparticle excitations that are analogues to elementary particles such as Majorana, Weyl, and Dirac fermions. Recent advances in band theory have expanded the classification of fermions in crystals, and…

One of the most important issues in modern condensed matter physics is the realization of fractionalized excitations, such as the Majorana excitations in the Kitaev quantum spin liquid. To this aim, the 3d-based Kitaev material Na2Co2TeO6…

We study the spin transport through the quantum spin liquid (QSL) by investigating the real-time and real-space dynamics of the Kitaev spin system with a zigzag structure in terms of the time-dependent Majorana mean-field theory. After the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-27 Tetsuya Minakawa , Yuta Murakami , Akihisa Koga , Joji Nasu

We present the theory of dynamical spin-response for the Kitaev honeycomb model, obtaining exact results for the structure factor (SF) in gapped and gapless, Abelian and non-Abelian quantum spin-liquid (QSL) phases. We also describe the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-23 J. Knolle , D. L. Kovrizhin , J. T. Chalker , R. Moessner

We describe ground states of correlated electron systems in which the electron fractionalizes into separate quasiparticles which carry its spin and its charge, and into real Majorana fermions which carry its Fermi statistics. Such parent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-10-21 Cenke Xu , Subir Sachdev