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Recently, the Kitaev-Heisenberg-$\Gamma$ system has been used to explore various aspects of Kitaev spin liquid physics. Here, we consider a few small clusters of up to twelve sites and study them in detail to unravel many interesting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-27 Sheikh Moonsun Pervez , Saptarshi Mandal

The calculation of spatial structure of a quantum intermediate state in high pure type I superconductors in external magnetic field at low temperatures is completed. The theoretical model of thermodynamics of intermediate state in type I…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-04-27 Oleg P. Ledenyov

We investigate the thermodynamics and energy eigenstates of a spin-1/2 coupled trimer, tetramer in a star configuration, and tetrahedron. Using a Heisenberg Hamiltonian with additional Kitaev interactions, we explore the thermodynamic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-10 Evan M. Wilson , Jian-Xin Zhu , Jason T. Haraldsen

Recently there has been a renewed interest in properties of the higher-spin Kitaev models, especially their low-dimensional analogues with additional interactions. These quasi-1D systems exhibit rich phase diagrams with symmetry-protected…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-12 Jacob S. Gordon , Hae-Young Kee

Thermodynamic properties of chiral spin liquids are investigated for a variant of the Kitaev model defined on a decorated honeycomb lattice. Using the quantum Monte Carlo simulation, we find that the model exhibits a finite-temperature…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-08-26 Joji Nasu , Yukitoshi Motome

The spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the diamond-decorated square lattice in the presence of a magnetic field displays various quantum phases including the Lieb-Mattis ferrimagnetic, dimer-tetramer, monomer-dimer, and spin-canted…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-09 Katarina Karlova , Andreas Honecker , Nils Caci , Stefan Wessel , Jozef Strecka , Taras Verkholyak

Many-body entanglement properties of quantum spin liquids (QSLs), persisting at arbitrarily long distances, have been intensely explored over the past two decades, but mostly for QSLs viewed as {\em closed} quantum systems. However, in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-23 Federico Garcia-Gaitan , Branislav K. Nikolic

The advent of twisted moir\'e heterostructures as a playground for strongly correlated electron physics has led to a plethora of experimental and theoretical efforts seeking to unravel the nature of the emergent superconducting and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-06 Dominik Kiese , Yuchi He , Ciarán Hickey , Angel Rubio , Dante M. Kennes

An effective model in the isolated dimer limit of the Kitaev-type model on a decorated honeycomb lattice is investigated at finite temperature. The ground state of this model is exactly shown to be a chiral spin liquid with spontaneous…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-19 Joji Nasu , Yukitoshi Motome

Ultracold atoms and molecules trapped in optical lattices are expected to serve as simulators of strongly correlated systems and topological states of matter. A fascinating example is to realize the Kitaev quantum spin liquid by using…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-29 Kiyu Fukui , Yasuyuki Kato , Joji Nasu , Yukitoshi Motome

Thermalisation is a probabilistic process. As such, it is generally expected that when we increase the temperature of a system its classical behaviour dominates its quantum coherences. By employing the Gibbs state of a translationally…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-29 Chris N. Self , Johannes Knolle , Sofyan Iblisdir , Jiannis K. Pachos

Three different tensor network optimization algorithms are employed to accurately determine the ground state and thermodynamic properties of the spin-3/2 kagome Heisenberg antiferromagnet. We found that the $\sqrt{3} \times \sqrt{3}$ state,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-20 Tao Liu , Wei Li , Gang Su

Using unbiased Monte Carlo simulations and variational analysis, we present the ground state and finite temperature phase diagrams of an exactly solvable spin-orbital model with Kitaev-type interactions on a square lattice. We show that an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-29 Ritwika Majumder , Onur Erten , Anamitra Mukherjee

Motivated by experiments on spin-orbit coupled magnets with Kitaev exchange in magnetic fields, we present an analysis of the classical Kitaev honeycomb model in the presence of a magnetic field. We show that there is a spin liquid regime…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-12 Paul A. McClarty , Roderich Moessner , Karlo Penc , Jeffrey G. Rau

We introduce a matrix-product state based method to efficiently obtain dynamical response functions for two-dimensional microscopic Hamiltonians, which we apply to different phases of the Kitaev-Heisenberg model. We find significant broad…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-18 Matthias Gohlke , Ruben Verresen , Roderich Moessner , Frank Pollmann

Energy spectra, electron densities, pair correlation functions and heat capacity of a quantum-dot lithium in zero external magnetic field (a system of three interacting two-dimensional electrons in a parabolic confinement potential) are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 S. A. Mikhailov

Kitaev materials are of great interest due to their potential in realizing quantum spin liquid (QSL) states and applications in topological quantum computing. In the pursuit of realizing Kitaev QSL, a Mott insulator with strong…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-30 Yaozhenghang Ma , Ke Yang , Yuxuan Zhou , Hua Wu

Compass models provide insights into the properties of Mott-insulating materials that host bond-dependent anisotropic interactions between their pseudospin degrees of freedom. In this article, we explore the classical and quantum ground…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-22 Subhankar Khatua , Griffin C. Howson , Michel J. P. Gingras , Jeffrey G. Rau

The quasi-one-dimensional S=1 Heisenberg antiferromagnet with a biquadratic term is investigated at zero temperature by quantum Monte Carlo simulation. As the magnitude of the inter-chain coupling is increased, the system undergoes a phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Kenji Harada , Naoki Kawashima , Matthias Troyer

A decade ago, Alexei Kitaev proposed an exactly solvable $S$ = 1/2 model on a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice, where the spins fractionalize into Majorana fermions and form a topological quantum spin liquid (QSL) in the ground state. It…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-21 Hidenori Takagi , Tomohiro Takayama , George Jackeli , Giniyat Khaliullin , Stephen E. Nagler