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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…

Elementary excitations in highly entangled states such as quantum spin liquids may exhibit exotic statistics, different from those obeyed by fundamental bosons and fermions. Excitations called non-Abelian anyons are predicted to exist in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-11 Jacob S. Gordon , Andrei Catuneanu , Erik S. Sørensen , Hae-Young Kee

We describe a mechanism for order fractionalization in a two-dimensional Kondo lattice model, in which electrons interact with a gapless spin liquid of Majorana fermions described by the Yao-Lee (YL) model. When the Kondo coupling to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-11 Alexei M. Tsvelik , Piers Coleman

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

Geometrical frustration, quantum entanglement and disorder may prevent long-range order of localized spins with strong exchange interactions, resulting in a novel state of matter. $\kappa$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$-Cu$_2$(CN)$_3$ is considered the…

Majorana bound states constitute one of the simplest examples of emergent non-Abelian excitations in condensed matter physics. A toy model proposed by Kitaev shows that such states can arise at the ends of a spinless $p$-wave…

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

Proposed effective Hamiltonians from the literature for the material $\alpha$-RuCl${}_3$ are used to compute the magnon thermal Hall conductivity, $\kappa_{xy}$, using linear spin wave theory for the magnetically ordered state. No model…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-30 Tessa Cookmeyer , Joel E. Moore

The Kitaev model is a rare example of an analytically solvable and physically instantiable Hamiltonian yielding a topological quantum spin liquid ground state. Here we report signatures of Kitaev spin liquid physics in the honeycomb magnet…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-04 Hector K. Vivanco , Benjamin A. Trump , Craig M. Brown , Tyrel M. McQueen

Anderson proposed structural topology in frustrated magnets hosting novel quantum spin liquids (QSLs). The QSL state is indeed exactly derived by fractionalizing the spin excitation into spinless Majorana fermions in a perfect two…

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

Recently, the observation of large thermal Hall conductivities in correlated insulators with no apparent broken symmetry have generated immense interest and debates on the underlying ground states. Here, considering frustrated magnets with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-09 Li Ern Chern , Finn Lasse Buessen , Yong Baek Kim

Spin-orbital generalization of Kitaev model provides a robust extension to the original Kitaev model. However, real materials often exhibit competing interactions that break exact solvability which can give rise to new phases. Motivated by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-07 Ivan Dutta , Aayush Vijayvargia , Anamitra Mukherjee , Onur Erten , Kush Saha

Recent numerical studies indicate that the antiferromagnetic Kitaev honeycomb lattice model undergoes a magnetic-field-induced quantum phase transition into a new spin-liquid phase. This intermediate-field phase has been previously…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-02 Shang-Shun Zhang , Gábor B. Halász , Cristian D. Batista

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

We investigate the thermal Hall conductivity in the Kitaev model with additional interactions under a magnetic field, employing a finite-temperature tensor network method benchmarked by a thermal pure quantum state technique. We find that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-03 Tsuyoshi Okubo , Joji Nasu , Takahiro Misawa , Yukitoshi Motome

Kitaev magnets have emerged as pivotal systems for investigating frustrated magnetism, providing a unique platform to explore quantum phases governed by the interplay between bond-dependent anisotropy and external magnetic fields. However,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-13 Shuai Liu , Hao Wu , Jinbin Li , Xiaoqun Wang , Qiang Luo

The fractionalization of quantum numbers in interacting quantum-many body systems is a central motif in condensed matter physics with prominent examples including the fractionalization of the electron in quantum Hall liquids or the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-04-16 Maria Hermanns , Kevin O'Brien , Simon Trebst

We study the effect of disorder on Z$_2$ quantum spin liquids with a Majorana Fermi line (respectively surface in three dimensions) and show that depending on the symmetries that are preserved \emph{on average} qualitatively different…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-03 Lukas Rødland , Carlos Ortega-Taberner , Megha Agarwal , Maria Hermanns

We study how stable the Majorana-mediated spin transport in a quantum spin Kitaev model is against thermal fluctuations. Using the time-dependent thermal pure quantum state method, we examine finite-temperature spin dynamics in the Kitaev…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-30 Hirokazu Taguchi , Yuta Murakami , Akihisa Koga