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Quantum spin liquids are long-range entangled states of matter with emergent gauge fields and fractionalized excitations. While candidate materials, such as the Kitaev honeycomb ruthenate $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$, show magnetic order at low…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-16 I. Rousochatzakis , S. Kourtis , J. Knolle , R. Moessner , N. B. Perkins

Quantum spin liquids can arise from Kitaev magnetic interactions, and exhibit fractionalized excitations with the potential for a topological form of quantum computation. This review surveys recent experimental and theoretical progress on…

Quantum spin liquids have been at the forefront of correlated electron research ever since their original proposal in 1973, and the realization that they belong to the broader class of intrinsic topological orders, along with the fractional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-26 Ioannis Rousochatzakis , Yuriy Sizyuk , Natalia B. Perkins

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 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 investigate the ground state properties of the spin S=1 Kitaev honeycomb model under a magnetic field based on the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) calculation. With the time reversal symmetry breaking due to the magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-23 Zheng Zhu , Zheng-Yu Weng , D. N. Sheng

Kitaev's honeycomb lattice spin model is a remarkable exactly solvable model, which has a particular type of spin liquid (Kitaev spin liquid) as the ground state. Although its possible realization in iridates and $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$ has been…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-07 Masahiko G. Yamada , Hiroyuki Fujita , Masaki Oshikawa

The search for Kitaev's quantum spin liquid (KQSL) state in real materials has recently expanded with the prediction that honeycomb lattices of divalent, high-spin cobalt ions could host the dominant bond-dependent exchange interactions…

Kitaev iridates have been proposed as candidates for realizing an elusive quantum spin liquid (QSL) state, in which strong spin-orbit coupling and bond-directional exchange generate a highly frustrated and entangled ground state. However,…

We discuss the discovery by variational Monte Carlo (VMC) methods of a series of multinode quantum spin liquids (QSLs) in extended Kitaev models on the honeycomb lattice. Like the gapless Kitaev spin liquid with its two nodes at K and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-03 Jiucai Wang , B. Normand , Zheng-Xin Liu

The $S=3/2$ Kitaev honeycomb model (KHM) is unique among the spin-$S$ Kitaev models due to a massive ground state quasi-degeneracy that hampered previous numerical and analytical studies. In a recent work~\cite{jin2022unveiling}, we showed…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-15 Willian M. H. Natori , Hui-Ke Jin , Johannes Knolle

Pursuing the exotic quantum spin liquid (QSL) state in the Kitaev material $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$ has intrigued great research interest recently. A fascinating question is on the possible existence of field-induced QSL phase in this compound.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-14 Xu-Guang Zhou , Han Li , Yasuhiro H. Matsuda , Akira Matsuo , Wei Li , Nobuyuki Kurita , Gang Su , Koichi Kindo , Hidekazu Tanaka

In the field of quantum magnetism, the exactly solvable Kitaev honeycomb model serves as a paradigm for the fractionalization of spin degrees of freedom and the formation of $\mathbb{Z}_2$ quantum spin liquids. An intense experimental…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-07 Ciarán Hickey , Simon Trebst

We study the exchange interactions and resulting magnetic phases in the honeycomb cobaltates. For a broad range of trigonal crystal fields acting on Co2+ ions, the low-energy pseudospin-1/2 Hamiltonian is dominated by bond-dependent Ising…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-23 Huimei Liu , Jiri Chaloupka , Giniyat Khaliullin

Layered honeycomb magnets are of interest as potential realizations of the Kitaev quantum spin liquid (KQSL), a quantum state with long-range spin entanglement and an exactly solvable Hamiltonian. Conventional magnetically ordered states…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-28 Ruidan Zhong , Tong Gao , Nai Phuan Ong , Robert J. Cava

In this computational study, we explore a viable route to access the Kitaev-Quantum Spin Liquid (QSL) state in recently synthesized monolayer of a so-called spin-orbit assisted Mott insulator OsCl$_3$. In addition to other magnetic ground…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-14 Qiangqiang Gu , Shishir Kumar Pandey , Yihao Lin

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) represent highly entangled states of matter in which frustration-induced quantum fluctuations suppress any symmetry-breaking phase transition down to absolute zero, giving rise to fractionalized excitations and…

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are topologically ordered exotic states of matter that host fractionalized excitations. Kitaev proposed a particular route towards a QSL via strongly bond-dependent interactions on the hexagonal lattice. A number…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-06 Xinshu Zhang , Yuanyuan Xu , T. Halloran , Ruidan Zhong , R. J. Cava , C. Broholm , N. Drichko , N. P. Armitage

Recently H$_3$LiIr$_2$O$_6$ has been reported as a spin-orbital entangled quantum spin liquid (QSL) [K. Kitagawa et al., Nature {\bf 554}, 341 (2018)], albeit its connection to Kitaev QSL has not been yet identified. To unveil the related…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-13 Shenghai Pei , Liang-Long Huang , Gaomin Li , Xiaobin Chen , Bin Xi , XinWei Wang , Youguo Shi , Dapeng Yu , Cai Liu , Le Wang , Fei Ye , Mingyuan Huang , Jia-Wei Mei

The Kitaev model predicts that quantum spin liquids (QSLs) will form at low temperatures under certain special conditions, and materials hosting the QSL state are frequently sought. The layered honeycomb lattice material {\alpha}-RuCl3 has…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-24 Danrui Ni , Xin Gui , Kelly M. Powderly , R. J. Cava