English
Related papers

Related papers: Thermal transport in a two-dimensional $\mathbb{Z}…

200 papers

Based on numerical simulations, a study of the high temperature, finite frequency, thermal conductivity $\kappa(\omega)$ of spin-1/2 ladders is presented. The exact diagonalization and a novel Lanczos technique are employed.The conductivity…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 X. Zotos

Emerging new concepts, such as magnetic charge dynamics in two-dimensional magnetic material, can provide novel mechanism for spin based electrical transport at macroscopic length. In artificial spin ice of single domain elements, magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-25 Yiyao Chen , George Yumnam , Jiasen Guo , Laura Stingaciu , Piotr Zolnierczuk , Valeria Lauter , Deepak K. Singh

We study the spin and thermal conductivity of spin-1/2 ladders at finite temperature. This is relevant for experiments with quantum magnets. Using a state-of-the-art density matrix renormalization group algorithm, we compute the current…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-23 C. Karrasch , D. M. Kennes , F. Heidrich-Meisner

We investigate the impact of two types of disorder, bond randomness and site dilution, on the spin dynamics in the Kitaev model on a honeycomb lattice. The ground state of this model is a canonical quantum spin liquid with spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-14 Joji Nasu , Yukitoshi Motome

We analyze the thermal conductivity of frustrated spin-1/2 chains within linear-response theory focusing on its frequency dependence at finite temperatures. Using exact diagonalization, the low-frequency limit of the thermal conductivity is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Heidrich-Meisner , A. Honecker , D. C. Cabra , W. Brenig

We investigate both the longitudinal thermal conductivity ($\kappa_{xx}$) and the planar thermal Hall conductivity ($\kappa_{xy}$) in the Kitaev spin liquid candidate of Co-based honeycomb antiferromagnet Na$_2$Co$_2$TeO$_6$ in a magnetic…

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

We describe neutron scattering, NMR relaxation, and thermal transport properties of Z_2 spin liquids in two dimensions. Comparison to recent experiments on the spin S=1/2 triangular lattice antiferromagnet in kappa-(ET)2Cu2(CN)3 shows that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-04-30 Yang Qi , Cenke Xu , Subir Sachdev

We consider electron transport in a model of a spinless superconductor described by a Kitaev type lattice Hamiltonian where the electron interactions are modelled through a superconducting pairing term. The superconductor is sandwiched…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-04 Junaid Majeed Bhat , Abhishek Dhar

The Kitaev model, defined on a honeycomb lattice, features an exactly solvable ground state with fractionalized Majorana fermion excitations, which can potentially form non-Abelian anyons crucial for fault-tolerant topological quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-18 Hibiki Takegami , Takao Morinari

We present experiments on the magnetic field-dependent thermal transport in the spin-1/2 ladder system (C$_5$H$_{12}$N)$_2$CuBr$_4$. The thermal conductivity $\kappa(B)$ is only weakly affected by the field-induced transitions between the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-14 A. V. Sologubenko , T. Lorenz , J. A. Mydosh , B. Thielemann , H. M. Ronnow , Ch. Ruegg , K. Kramer

We study the spin and heat conductivity of dimerized spin-1/2 chains in homogeneous magnetic fields at finite temperatures. At zero temperature, the model undergoes two field-induced quantum phase transitions from a dimerized, into a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-09-23 S. Langer , R. Darradi , F. Heidrich-Meisner , W. Brenig

Recently, there have been increasingly hot debates on whether there exists a quantum spin liquid in the Kitaev honeycomb magnet $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$ in high magnetic field. To investigate this issue, we perform the ultralow-temperature thermal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-14 Y. J. Yu , Y. Xu , K. J. Ran , J. M. Ni , Y. Y. Huang , J. H. Wang , J. S. Wen , S. Y. Li

The Kitaev honeycomb model provides a paradigmatic example of an exactly solvable quantum spin liquid (QSL), in which the spin degrees of freedom fractionalize into itinerant Majorana fermions coupled to a static background of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-28 Vitor Dantas , Wen-Han Kao , Natalia B. Perkins

We report an in-plane thermal transport study of the honeycomb Kitaev material Na$_2$Co$_2$TeO$_6$ at subKelvin temperatures. In zero field, the $\kappa(T)$ displays a rather weak $T$-dependence but has a non-zero residual term…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-16 S. K. Guang , N. Li , R. L. Luo , Q. Huang , Y. Y. Wang , X. Y. Yue , K. Xia , Q. J. Li , X. Zhao , G. Chen , H. D. Zhou , X. F. Sun

In recent years, it has been shown that the phonon dynamics may serve as an indirect probe of fractionalization of spin degrees of freedom. Here we propose that the sound attenuation measurements allows for the characterization and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-27 Kexin Feng , Aysel Shiralieva , Natalia B. Perkins

We investigate thermal transport in square ice, a two-dimensional analogue of spin ice, exploring the role played by emergent magnetic monopoles in transporting energy. Using kinetic Monte Carlo simulations based on energy preserving…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-14 Ruairidh Sutcliffe , Jeffrey G. Rau

The Kitaev spin liquid, a ground state of the bond-dependent Kitaev model in a honeycomb lattice has been a centre of attraction, since a microscopic theory to realize such an interaction in solid-state materials was discovered. A challenge…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-20 Jiefu Cen , Hae-Young Kee

We present a detailed investigation of longitudinal magneto-thermal transport in the $S=1/2$ ferromagnetic XXZ model with easy-axis exchange anisotropy ($\Delta>1$) on a face-centered cubic lattice consisting of four sublattices. We employ…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-28 M. R. Parymuda

Kitaev quantum spin liquid is a topological magnetic quantum state characterized by Majorana fermions of fractionalized spin excitations, which are identical to their own antiparticles. Here, we demonstrate emergence of Majorana fermions…