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We report a $^{35}$Cl nuclear magnetic resonance study in the honeycomb lattice, $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$, a material that has been suggested to potentially realize a Kitaev quantum spin liquid (QSL) ground state. Our results provide direct…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-26 S. -H. Baek , S. -H. Do , K. -Y. Choi , Y. S. Kwon , A. U. B. Wolter , S. Nishimoto , Jeroen van den Brink , B. Büchner

The ruthenium halide $\alpha$-RuCl$_{3}$ is a promising candidate for a Kitaev spin liquid. However, the microscopic model describing $\alpha$-RuCl$_{3}$ is still debated partly because of a lack of analogue materials for…

Quantum spin liquids, a highly topologically entangled, dynamically correlated state where quantum fluctuations preclude any long-range ordering down to absolute zero. In the search for a topologically robust qubit, the scientific community…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-11 Vivek Kumar , Pradeep Kumar

We develop a gauge-invariant renormalized mean-field theory (RMFT) to reliably find the quantum spin liquid (QSL) states and their field response for realistic Kitaev materials under strong magnetic fields and described by the generalized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-06 Po-Hao Chou , Chung-Yu Mou , Chung-Hou Chung , Sungkit Yip

The Kitaev quantum spin liquid (QSL) on the two-dimensional honeycomb lattice epitomizes an entangled topological state, where the spins fractionalize into Majorana fermions. This state has aroused tremendous interest because it harbors…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-12 S. Suetsugu , Y. Ukai , M. Shimomura , M. Kamimura , T. Asaba , Y. Kasahara , N. Kurita , H. Tanaka , T. Shibauchi , J. Nasu , Y. Motome , Y. Matsuda

The exactly-solvable Kitaev model of two-dimensional honeycomb magnet leads to a quantum spin liquid (QSL) characterized by Majorana fermions, relevant for fault-tolerant topological quantum computations. In the high-field paramagnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-13 O. Tanaka , Y. Mizukami , R. Harasawa , K. Hashimoto , K. Hwang , N. Kurita , H. Tanaka , S. Fujimoto , Y. Matsuda , E. -G. Moon , T. Shibauchi

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) represent a novel state of matter in which quantum fluctuations prevent conventional magnetic order from being established, and the spins remain disordered even at zero temperature. There have been many…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-11 Zhen Ma , Kejing Ran , Jinghui Wang , Song Bao , Zhengwei Cai , Shichao Li , Jinsheng Wen

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…

Significant efforts have focused on the magnetic excitations of relativistic Mott insulators, predicted to realize the Kitaev quantum spin liquid (QSL). This exactly solvable model involves a highly entangled state resulting from…

The quasi two-dimensional Mott insulator $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$ is proximate to the sought-after Kitaev quantum spin liquid (QSL). In a layer of $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$ on graphene the dominant Kitaev exchange is further enhanced by strain. Recently,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-24 V. Leeb , K. Polyudov , S. Mashhadi , S. Biswas , Roser Valenti , M. Burghard , J. Knolle

Magnetic moments arranged at the corners of a honeycomb lattice are predicted to form a novel state of matter, Kitaev quantum spin liquid, under the influence of frustration effects between bond-dependent Ising interactions. Some layered…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-09 Sean K. Takahashi , Jiaming Wang , Alexandre Arsenault , Mykola Abramchuk , Fazel Tafti , Philip M. Singer , Takashi Imai

The realization of quantum spin liquids (QSLs) in Kitaev magnets represents an intriguing topic in frustrated quantum magnetism. Despite prediction in the pure Kitaev honeycomb model, realization of QSLs in realistic systems and materials…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-11 Han Li , Xu-Guang Zhou , Gang Su , Wei Li

The quantum spin liquid (QSL) state has been searched intensively in Kitaev-like materials, such as the Iridium oxides $A_2$IrO$_3$ and $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$. The half-filled Kitaev-Hubbard model with bond dependent hopping terms is used to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-06 Shaojun Dong , Hao Zhang , Chao Wang , Meng Zhang , Yong-Jian Han , Lixin He

The spin liquid phase is one of the prominent strongly interacting topological phases of matter whose unambiguous confirmation is yet to be reached despite intensive experimental efforts on numerous candidate materials. Recently, a new…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-10 Andrei Catuneanu , Youhei Yamaji , Gideon Wachtel , Yong Baek Kim , Hae-Young Kee

In the quest for realizations of quantum spin liquids, the exploration of Kitaev materials - spin-orbit entangled Mott insulators with strong bond-directional exchanges - has taken center stage. However, in these materials the local…

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

By including a material-relevant off-diagonal interaction called the $\Gamma$ term into the Kitaev model and introducing spatial anisotropy in the interaction strength on the honeycomb lattice, we obtain a series of nodal Z$_2$ quantum spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-15 Jiucai Wang , Zheng-Xin Liu

{\alpha}-RuCl3 is a Kitaev material suggested to be a proximate quantum spin liquid in a certain temperature and magnetic field range. Nonequilibrium measurements of transient dynamics have been proposed to detect fractionalized particles…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-23 Haochen Zhang , Subin Kim , Young-June Kim , Hae-Young Kee , Luyi Yang

The search for Kitaev's quantum spin liquid (KQSL) state in real materials has recently expanded with the prediction that honeycomb lattices of divalent, high-spin cobalt ions could host the dominant bond-dependent exchange interactions…

Kitaev's honeycomb model is a paradigmatic exactly solvable system hosting a quantum spin liquid with non-Abelian anyons and topologically protected edge modes, offering a platform for fault-tolerant quantum computation. However, real…