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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

We explore the salient features of the `Kitaev ladder', a two-legged ladder version of the spin-1/2 Kitaev model on a honeycomb lattice, by mapping it to a one-dimensional fermionic p-wave superconducting system. We examine the connections…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-27 Wade DeGottardi , Diptiman Sen , Smitha Vishveshwara

We systematically explore the ground-state phase diagram of the Kane-Mele-Kondo lattice model on the honeycomb lattice, in particular, we focus on its magnetic properties which has not been studied in the previous publication[Feng, Dai,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-12-16 Yin Zhong , Yu-Feng Wang , Han-Tao Lu , Hong-Gang Luo

Spin-triplet $p$-wave superconductors are promising candidates for topological superconductors. They have been proposed in various heterostructures where a material with strong spin-orbit interaction is coupled to a conventional $s$-wave…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-03 Yung-Yeh Chang , Khoe Van Nguyen , Kuang-Lung Chen , Yen-Wen Lu , Chung-Yu Mou , Chung-Hou Chung

Paramagnetic impurities in a quantum spin-liquid can result in Kondo effects with highly unusual properties. We have studied the effect of locally exchange-coupling a paramagnetic impurity with the spin-1/2 honeycomb Kitaev model in its…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-26 S. D. Das , K. Dhochak , V. Tripathi

Motivated by the growing interest in the novel quantum phases in materials with strong electron correlations and spin-orbit coupling, we study the interplay between the spin-orbit coupling, Kondo interaction, and magnetic frustration of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-04 Xin Li , Rong Yu , Qimiao Si

Altermagnet-superconductor heterostructures have been shown, in principle, to provide a route towards realising topological superconductivity, and therefore host topologically protected boundary states. In this work we demonstrate that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 George McArdle , Brian Kiraly , Peter Wadley , Adam Gammon-Smith

Recent advances in Kitaev materials have highlighted their potential to host Majorana fermions without or high-temperature of superconductivity. In this research, we propose $Li_2IrO_3$ as a promising High-temperature superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Elnaz Rostampour , Badie Ghavami

We study quantum phase transitions in the honeycomb Kitaev model under a magnetic field, focusing on the topological nature of Majorana fermion excitations. We find a gapless phase between the low-field gapless quantum spin liquid and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-12 Joji Nasu , Yasuyuki Kato , Yoshitomo Kamiya , Yukitoshi Motome

Fractionalized Fermi liquids (FL$^\ast$) have been introduced as non-Fermi-liquid metallic phases, characterized by coexisting electron-like charge carriers and local moments which itself form a fractionalized spin liquid. Here we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-14 Urban F. P. Seifert , Tobias Meng , Matthias Vojta

We investigate spinon band topology and engineering from the interplay between long-ranged magnetic order and fractionalized spinons, as well as Zeeman coupling under external magnetic fields, in honeycomb lattice magnets. The synergism of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-21 Yong Hao Gao , Xu Ping Yao , Gang Chen

We provide analytical and numerical evidence of a spin-triplet FFLO superconductivity in the itinerant Kitaev-Heisenberg model (anti-ferromagnetic Kitaev coupling and ferromagnetic Heisenberg coupling) on the honeycomb lattice around…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-23 Tianhan Liu , Cécile Repellin , Benoît Douçot , Nicolas Regnault , Karyn Le Hur

With the advancement in synthesizing and analyzing Kitaev materials, the Kitaev-Heisenberg model on the honeycomb lattice has attracted a lot of attention in the last few years. Several variations, which include additional anisotropic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-15 Darshan G. Joshi

The unique linear density of state around the Dirac points for the honeycomb lattice brings much novel features in strongly correlated models. Here we study the ground-state phase diagram of the Kondo lattice model on the honeycomb lattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-02 Yin Zhong , Ke Liu , Yu-Feng Wang , Yong-Qiang Wang , Hong-Gang Luo

We investigate the competition between the spin-orbit interaction of itinerant electrons and their Kondo coupling with local moments densely distributed on the honeycomb lattice. We find that the model at half-filling displays a quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-08-09 Xiao-Yong Feng , Jianhui Dai , Chung-Hou Chung , Qimiao Si

The Kitaev model belongs to an unconventional class of two-dimensional spin systems characterized by anisotropic, bond-dependent interactions that give rise to Quantum Spin Liquid (QSL) states. These exotic phases, marked by the absence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-29 A. R. Moura , L. V. Santos

We analyse in detail the effect of non-trivial band topology on the area law behaviour of the entanglement entropy in Kitaev's honeycomb model. By mapping the translationally invariant 2D spin model into 1D fermionic subsystems, we identify…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-05 Konstantinos Meichanetzidis , Mauro Cirio , Jiannis K. Pachos , Ville Lahtinen

We investigate the properties of the Kitaev-Kondo lattice model defined on a bilayer honeycomb lattice by means of the SO(3) Majorana representation for spin-$1/2$ moments. We first consider the pairing of neighboring sites for the parent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-20 Vanuildo S. de Carvalho , Rafael M. P. Teixeira , Hermann Freire , Eduardo Miranda

We propose a theoretical framework in which a one-dimensional (1D) tight-binding model incorporating unconventional magnetic order together with Rashba and Ising spin-orbit couplings are considered to realize two key phenomena in condensed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Amartya Pal , Debashish Mondal , Tanay Nag , Arijit Saha

Emergence of multiple topological phases with a series of Chern numbers, $\pm 1$, $\mp 1$, $\pm 2$, $\mp 2$, $\pm 3$ and $\mp 4$, are observed in a ferromagnetic Kitaev-Heisenberg-spin-anisotropic model on honeycomb lattice with further…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-06 Moumita Deb , Asim Kumar Ghosh