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Magnetic fields can give rise to a plethora of phenomena in Kitaev spin systems, such as the formation of non-trivial spin liquids in two and three spatial dimensions. For the original honeycomb Kitaev model, it has recently been observed…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-01 Christoph Berke , Simon Trebst , Ciarán Hickey

One of the goals of modern spectroscopy is to invent techniques which detect neutral excitations that have been theoretically proposed. For superconductors, two point transport measurements detect the Andreev crossed reflection which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-11 D. Schmeltzer

We introduce a new approach to create and detect Majorana fermions using optically trapped 1D fermionic atoms. In our proposed setup, two internal states of the atoms couple via an optical Raman transition---simultaneously inducing an…

Motivated by recent experiments in the Kitaev honeycomb lattice, Kondo insulators, and the "Luttinger's theorem-violating" Fermi liquid phase of the underdoped cuprates, we extend the theoretical machinery of Landau-Fermi liquid theory to a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-18 Joshuah T. Heath , Kevin S. Bedell

Through the introduction of a class of appropriate translationally invariant trial wave functions, we show that the strong correlations in the lowest Landau level (LLL) reflect in finite systems the emergence of intrinsic point-group…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-03 Constantine Yannouleas , Uzi Landman

We examine the spectroscopic signatures of tunneling through a Kitaev quantum spin liquid (QSL) barrier in a number of experimentally relevant geometries. We combine contributions from elastic and inelastic tunneling processes and find that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-04 Elio J. König , Mallika T. Randeria , Berthold Jäck

When a strongly correlated quantum dot is tunnel-coupled to a superconductor, it leads to the formation of Shiba bound states inside the superconducting gap. They have been measured experimentally in a superconductor-quantum dot-normal lead…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-07 Razvan Chirla , Catalin Pascu Moca

We measure Raman scattering in an interacting spin-dimer system KCuCl3 under hydrostatic pressures up to 5 GPa mediated by He gas. In the pressure-induced quantum phase, we observe a one-magnon Raman peak, which originates from the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-11 H. Kuroe , N. Takami , N. Niwa , T. Sekine , M. Matsumoto , F. Yamada , H. Tanaka , K. Takemura

In the context of the low energy effective theory, the exact Landau level spectrum of quasiparticles in twisted bilayer graphene with small twist angle is analytically obtained by spheroidal eigenvalues. We analyze the dependence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Min-Young Choi , Young-Hwan Hyun , Yoonbai Kim

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…

Strong magnetic fields quench the kinetic energy of electrons, leading to the formation of flat energy bands, known as Landau levels (LLs). In this situation, even weak interactions can drive the emergence of various ordered phases. The…

The rare-earth-based geometrically frustrated triangular magnets have attracted considerable attention due to the intricate interplay between strong spin-orbit coupling and the crystal electric field (CEF), which often leads to effective…

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 spin liquids (QSLs) are exotic states of matter characterized by emergent gauge structures and fractionalized elementary excitations. The recently discovered triangular lattice antiferromagnet YbMgGaO$_4$ is a promising QSL…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-04 Yao Shen , Yao-Dong Li , H. C. Walker , P. Steffens , M. Boehm , Xiaowen Zhang , Shoudong Shen , Hongliang Wo , Gang Chen , Jun Zhao

Electronic properties of surface areas decoupled from graphite are studied using scanning tunnelling microscopy and spectroscopy. We show that it is possible to identify decoupled graphene monolayer, Bernal bilayer, and Bernal trilayer on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-06 Long-Jing Yin , Si-Yu Li , Jia-Bin Qiao , Jia-Cai Nie , Lin He

Nonlocal entanglement between two quantum dots can be generated through Majorana fermions. The two Majorana fermions at the ends of an one-dimensional topological superconductor form a nonlocal fermion level, coupling to the occupation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Zhi Wang , Xiao Hu

We present magneto-Raman spectroscopy measurements on suspended graphene to investigate the charge carrier density-dependent electron-electron interaction in the presence of Landau levels. Utilizing gate-tunable magneto-phonon resonances,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-25 J. Sonntag , S. Reichardt , L. Wirtz , B. Beschoten , M. I. Katsnelson , F. Libisch , C. Stampfer

Mott insulators with localized magnetic moments will exhibit a quantum spin liquid (QSL) state when the quantum fluctuations are strong enough to suppress the ordering of the spins. Such an entangled state will give rise to collective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-17 Haiyang Chen , Fo-Hong Wang , Qiang Gao , Xue-Jian Gao , Zhenhua Chen , Yaobo Huang , Kam Tuen Law , Xiao Yan Xu , Peng Chen

The identification of fractionalized excitations in quantum spin liquids (QSLs) remains a central challenge in condensed matter physics. In dipolar-octupolar (DO) pyrochlores, such as $\text{Ce}_2\text{Zr}_2\text{O}_7$, the candidate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-07 Bin Gao , Zhengbang Zhou , Tingjun Zhang , Andrey Podlesnyak , Sang-Wook Cheong , Yong Baek Kim , Pengcheng Dai

Majorana fermions are often proposed to be realized by first singling out one Fermi surface without spin degeneracy via spin-orbit coupling, and then imposing boundaries or defects. In this work, we take a different route starting with two…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-04 Wang Yang , Chao Xu , Congjun Wu