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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

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

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

We investigate an S=3/2 quantum spin model on a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice that continuously interpolates between two paradigmatic quantum disordered states with distinct entanglement structures: the Kitaev quantum spin liquid and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-28 Sogen Ikegami , Kiyu Fukui , Rico Pohle , Yukitoshi Motome

Quantum spin liquids have fascinated condensed matter physicists for decades because of their unusual properties such as spin fractionalization and long-range entanglement. Unlike conventional symmetry breaking the topological order…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-22 Maria Hermanns , Itamar Kimchi , Johannes Knolle

We numerically study the spin-$1/2$ breathing kagome lattice. In this variation of the kagome Heisenberg antiferromagnet, the spins belonging to upward and downward facing triangles have different coupling strengths. Using the density…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-22 Cécile Repellin , Yin-Chen He , Frank Pollmann

We study the spin stiffness of a one-dimensional quantum antiferromagnet in the whole range of system sizes $L$ and temperatures $T$. We show that for integer and half-odd integer spin case the stiffness differs fundamentally in its $L$ and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Daniel Loss , Dmitrii L. Maslov

We study the spin-one Kitaev model on the honeycomb lattice in the presence of single-ion anisotropies. We consider two types of single ion anisotropies: A $D_{111}$ anisotropy which preserves the symmetry between $X$, $Y$, and $Z$ bonds…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-22 Owen Bradley , Rajiv R. P. Singh

We present a controlled microscopic study of mobile holes in the spatially anisotropic (Abelian) gapped phase of the Kitaev honeycomb model. We address the properties of (i) a single hole [its internal degrees of freedom as well as its…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-08-04 Gábor B. Halász , J. T. Chalker , R. Moessner

This article is an introductory review of the physics of quantum spin liquid (QSL) states. Quantum magnetism is a rapidly evolving field, and recent developments reveal that the ground states and low-energy physics of frustrated spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-21 Yi Zhou , Kazushi Kanoda , Tai-Kai Ng

The Kitaev spin liquid, a ground state of the bond-dependent Kitaev model in a honeycomb lattice has been a centre of attraction, since a microscopic theory to realize such an interaction in solid-state materials was discovered. A challenge…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-20 Jiefu Cen , Hae-Young Kee

Nearly two decades ago, Alexei Kitaev proposed a model for spin-$1/2$ particles with bond-directional interactions on a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice which had the potential to host a quantum spin-liquid ground state. This work…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-19 Faranak Bahrami , Mykola Abramchuk , Oleg I. Lebedev , Fazel Tafti

The Kitaev honeycomb model plays a pivotal role in the quest for quantum spin liquids, in which fractional quasiparticles would provide applications in decoherence-free topological quantum computing. The key ingredient is the bond-dependent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-11 Seong-Hoon Jang , Yukitoshi Motome

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

The Kitaev model is an exactly solvable model with a quantum spin liquid ground state. While this model was originally proposed as an $S=1/2$ spin model on a honeycomb lattice, extensions to higher-spin systems have recently attracted…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-01 Daiki Sasamoto , Joji Nasu

Competition and cooperation between electron correlation and relativistic spin-orbit coupling give rise to diverse exotic quantum phenomena in solids. An illustrative example is spin-orbit entangled quantum liquids, which exhibit remarkable…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-15 Yi-Feng Zhao , Seong-Hoon Jang , Yukitoshi Motome

We study the zero-temperature phase diagram of the spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ Heisenberg model with breathing anisotropy (i.e., with different coupling strength on the upward and downward triangles) on the kagome lattice. Our study relies on large…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-01 Saeed S. Jahromi , Roman Orus , Didier Poilblanc , Frédéric Mila

Kitaev materials are promising materials for hosting quantum spin liquids and investigating the interplay of topological and symmetry-breaking phases. We use an unsupervised and interpretable machine-learning method, the tensorial-kernel…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-06 Ke Liu , Nicolas Sadoune , Nihal Rao , Jonas Greitemann , Lode Pollet

Motivated by the rich physics of honeycomb magnetic materials, we obtain the phase diagram and analyze magnetic properties of the spin-1/2 and spin-1 J1-J2-J3 Heisenberg model on the honeycomb lattice. Based on the SU(2) and SU(3) symmetry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-16 J. Merino , A. Ralko

The intrinsic equivalence between electron spin and qubit offers a natural foundation for quantum simulations of magnetic materials. However, incorporating magnetocrystalline anisotropy (MCA), a key feature of real magnets, remains a major…