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Spin-orbital liquids provide an exactly solvable route to three-dimensional Z2 quantum spin liquids beyond the original Kitaev setting. Built from higher-dimensional Clifford-algebra representations, spin-orbital Hamiltonians can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-09 Anna Sandberg , Lukas Rødland , Maria Hermanns

We provide a route to constructing an electronic quantum charge liquid (QCL), a state made up of fermions at fractional filling of a lattice that does not break translation. Starting with spinless fermions at filling $\nu=3/2$ we pair them…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-30 Jacob R. Taylor , Sankar Das Sarma , Seth Musser

The nature of the ground state of the spin $S=1/2$ Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the kagome lattice with breathing anisotropy (i.e., with different superexchange couplings $J_{\vartriangle}$ and $J_{\triangledown}$ within elementary up- and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-16 Yasir Iqbal , Didier Poilblanc , Ronny Thomale , Federico Becca

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

Kitaev quantum spin liquids (KSLs) in layered honeycomb magnets are known to host Majorana quasiparticles, whose excitations depend strongly on the direction of the applied magnetic field. In the high-field phase of $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-18 Shengjie Fang , Kumpei Imamura , Yuta Mizukami , Ryuichi Namba , Kota Ishihara , Kenichiro Hashimoto , Takasada Shibauchi

The bond-dependent Kitaev model on the honeycomb lattice with anyonic excitations has recently attracted considerable attention. However, in solid state materials other spin interactions are present, and among such additional interactions,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-27 Erik S. Sørensen , Andrei Catuneanu , Jacob Gordon , Hae-Young Kee

In string theory, higher rank antisymmetric tensor fields appear as massless excitations of closed strings. Till date there is no experimental support in favour of their existence. In a stringy framework, starting from a warped throat-like…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-18 Ashmita Das , Soumitra Sengupta

Using a perturbative renormalization group approach, we show that the extended ($J_1$-$J_2$-$J_d$) Heisenberg model on the kagome lattice with a staggered chiral interaction ($J_\chi$) can exhibit a gapless chiral quantum spin liquid phase.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-25 Rodrigo G. Pereira , Samuel Bieri

We study quantum disordered ground states of the two dimensional Heisenberg-Kitaev model on the triangular lattice using a Schwinger boson approach. Our aim is to identify and characterize potential gapped quantum spin liquid phases that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-25 Pavel Kos , Matthias Punk

Quantum spin liquid is an exotic quantum state of matter in magnets. This state is a spin analogue of the liquid helium which does not solidify down to the lowest temperature due to strong quantum fluctuations. In conventional fluids,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-22 Joji Nasu , Masafumi Udagawa , Yukitoshi Motome

In this paper, we obtain an exact formula for the entanglement entropy of the ground state and all excited states of the Kitaev model. Remarkably, the entanglement entropy can be expressed in a simple separable form S=S_G+S_F, with S_F the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-14 Hong Yao , Xiao-Liang Qi

Motivated by the search for chiral spin liquids (CSL), we consider a simple model defined on the kagome lattice of interacting SU(3) spins (in the fundamental representation) including two-site and three-site permutations between nearest…

The higher spin Kitaev model prominently features the extensive locally conserved quantities the same as the spin-$1/2$ Kitaev honeycomb model, although it is not exactly solvable. It remains an open question regarding the physical meaning…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-17 Han Ma

In this paper we report the latest results of exact diagonalizations of SU(2) invariant models on various lattices (square, triangular, hexagonal, checkerboard and kagome lattices). We focus on the low lying levels in each S sector. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Philippe Sindzingre , Claire Lhuillier

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 minimal Kitaev spin liquid on a single hexagon with three Ising-type exchange interactions proportional to $K_{x}$, $K_{y}$ and $K_{z}$. In the limit $K_{z}=0$, we find 32-fold zero-energy states, leading to 10 free…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-03 Motohiko Ezawa

It has been suggested that the nearest-neighbour (NN) antiferromagnetic Heisenberg (HAF) model on the Kagome lattice may be a good starting point to understand the quantum spin-liquid (QSL) behaviour discovered in Herbertsmithite. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-01-16 Tyler Dodds , Subhro Bhattacharjee , Yong Baek Kim

We derive the gauge-free Hamiltonian structure of an extended kinetic theory, for which the intrinsic spin of the particles is taken into account. Such a semi-classical theory can be of interest for describing, e.g., strongly magnetized…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Marklund , P. J. Morrison

We study quasiparticle interference (QPI) in the Kitaev quantum spin liquid (QSL) for electrons tunneling into the QSL. The local tunneling conductance around a spin vacancy or localized vison reveals unique features associated with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-28 Ammar Jahin , Hao Zhang , Gábor B. Halász , Shi-Zeng Lin

Quantum spin-orbital liquids (QSOLs) are a novel phase of matter, similar to quantum spin liquids, with quantum fluctuations in both spin and orbital degrees of freedom. We use non-equilibrium Green's function theory to study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Zekun Zhuang , J. B. Marston