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The recent discovery of Weyl fermions in solids enables exploitation of relativistic physics and development of a spectrum of intriguing physical phenomena. They are constituted of pairs of Weyl points with two-fold band degeneracy, which…

Using the Feynman diagram techniques, we derive the finite-temperature conductivity and magnetoconductivity formulas from the quantum interference and electron-electron interaction, for a three-dimensional disordered Weyl semimetal. For a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-15 Hai-Zhou Lu , Shun-Qing Shen

Weyl fermions are a new ingredient for correlated states of electronic matter. A key difficulty has been that real materials also contain non-Weyl quasiparticles, and disentangling the experimental signatures has proven challenging. We use…

Weyl-Kondo semimetals are strongly correlated topological semimetals that develop through the cooperation of the Kondo effect with space group symmetries. The Kondo effect, capturing quantum fluctuations associated with strong correlations,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-25 Yuan Fang , Lei Chen , Andrey Prokofiev , Iñigo Robredo , Jennifer Cano , Maia G. Vergniory , Silke Paschen , Qimiao Si

In recent years, several magnetic Mott insulators with strong spin-orbit couplings were suggested to be proximate to the Kitaev quantum spin liquid (QSL) whose one of the most exciting features is the fractionalization of spin excitations…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-05 Wen-Han Kao , Natalia B. Perkins

We report low-temperature (down to $\sim$5 K) Raman signatures of the recently discovered intercalated honeycomb magnet Ag$_3$LiIr$_2$O$_6$, a putative Kitaev quantum spin liquid (QSL) candidate. The Kitaev QSL is predicted to host Majorana…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-05 Srishti Pal , Vinod Kumar , Debendra Prasad Panda , A. Sundaresan , Avinash V. Mahajan , D. V. S. Muthu , A. K. Sood

Semiconductor-s-type superconductor nanowires host spinful fermions and cannot be reduced to a single spinless Kitaev chain hosting single Majorana zero mode. Instead, such systems can be converted into two coupled p-wave Kitaev-like chains…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Mijanur Islam , Mahan Mohseni , Ibsal Assi , Daniel Miravet , Pawel Hawrylak

In this paper, we present a simple model of a three-dimensional insulating magnetic structure which represents a magnonic analog of the layered electronic system described in [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 107}, 127205 (2011)]. In particular, our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-11 Vladimir A. Zyuzin , Alexey A. Kovalev

Spin-motive geometric force acting on electrons in metallic ferromagnets is extended to spin-motive force in magnon BEC, which is represented by phase-coherent precession of magnetization, and to the orbital-motive force in superfluid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 G. E. Volovik

We present certain exact analytical results for dynamical spin correlation functions in the Kitaev Model. It is the first result of its kind in non-trivial quantum spin models. The result is also novel: in spite of presence of gapless…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Baskaran , Saptarshi Mandal , R. Shankar

The Kitaev honeycomb model has attracted significant attention due to its exactly solvable spin-liquid ground state with fractionalized Majorana excitations and its possible materialization in magnetic Mott insulators with strong spin-orbit…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-24 Wen-Han Kao , Johannes Knolle , Gábor B. Halász , Roderich Moessner , Natalia B. Perkins

The suppression of magnetic order and the detection of a half-quantized thermal Hall effect in {\alpha}-RuCl3 under an external magnetic field have sparked significant debate, whether these phenomena point to spin fractionalization, as…

It was shown recently that Weyl fermions in a superconducting vortex lattice can condense into Landau levels. Here we study the chiral magnetic effect in the lowest Landau level: The appearance of an equilibrium current $I$ along the lines…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-02 M. J. Pacholski , C. W. J. Beenakker , İ. Adagideli

We study how stable the Majorana-mediated spin transport in a quantum spin Kitaev model is against thermal fluctuations. Using the time-dependent thermal pure quantum state method, we examine finite-temperature spin dynamics in the Kitaev…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-30 Hirokazu Taguchi , Yuta Murakami , Akihisa Koga

Realizations of Majorana fermions in solid state materials have attracted great interests recently in connection to topological order and quantum information processing. We propose a novel way to create Majorana fermions in superconductors.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-03-04 Yuan-Ming Lu , Ziqiang Wang

Majorana fermions are particles identical to their antiparticles proposed theoretically in 1937 by Ettore Majorana as real solutions of the Dirac equation. Alexei Kitaev suggested that Majorana particles should emerge in condensed matter…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-17 Antônio Lucas Rigotti Manesco , Gabriel Weber , Durval Rodrigues

The aim of this Tutorial is to give a pedagogical introduction into realizations of Majorana fermions, usually termed as Majorana bound states (MBS), in condensed matter systems with magnetic textures. We begin by considering the Kitaev…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-13 Utkan Güngördü , Alexey A. Kovalev

We study superconductivity in a Weyl semimetal with a tilted dispersion around two Weyl points of opposite chirality. In the absence of any tilt, the state with zero momentum pairing between two Fermi sheets enclosing each Weyl point has…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-04-04 M. Alidoust , K. Halterman , A. A. Zyuzin

The Kitaev model offers a platform for quantum spin liquids (QSLs) with fractional excitations, itinerant Majorana fermions and localized fluxes. Since these fractional excitations could be utilized for quantum computing, how to create,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-19 Takahiro Misawa , Joji Nasu , Yukitoshi Motome

Weyl fermions with tilted linear dispersions characterized by several different velocities appear in some systems including the quasi-two-dimensional organic semiconductor $\alpha$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$I$_3$ and three-dimensional WTe$_2$. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-22 Hiroki Isobe , Naoto Nagaosa