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The Kitaev quantum spin liquid epitomizes an entangled topological state, for which two flavors of fractionalized low-energy excitations are predicted: the itinerant Majorana fermion and the Z2 gauge flux. Detection of these excitations…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-17 H. Li , T. T. Zhang , A. Said , G. Fabbris , D. G. Mazzone , J. Q. Yan , D. Mandrus , G. B. Halasz , S. Okamoto , S. Murakami , M. P. M. Dean , H. N. Lee , H. Miao

Frustrated quantum magnets can harbor unconventional spin liquid ground states in which the elementary magnetic moments fractionalize into new emergent degrees of freedom. While the fractionalization of quantum numbers is one of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-07-12 Kevin O'Brien , Maria Hermanns , Simon Trebst

Motivated by the recent surge of field-driven phenomena discussed for Kitaev materials, in particular the experimental observation of a finite thermal Hall effect and theoretical proposals for the emergence of additional spin liquid phases…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-28 Yong Hao Gao , Ciarán Hickey , Tao Xiang , Simon Trebst , Gang Chen

We show that a chiral spin liquid spontaneously emerges in partially amorphous, polycrystalline, or ion-irradiated Kitaev materials. In these systems, time-reversal symmetry is broken spontaneously due to a non-zero density of plaquettes…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-05 Adolfo G. Grushin , Cécile Repellin

We investigate electrical transport in a three-dimensional massless Dirac fermion model that describes a Dirac semimetal state realized in topological materials. We derive a set of interdependent diffusion equations with eight local degrees…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-09 Nobuyuki Okuma , Masao Ogata

We present comprehensive inelastic neutron spectroscopic maps of the magnetic field-induced disordered phase of the Kitaev quantum spin liquid candidate material $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$. For fields along both in-plane high-symmetry directions we…

The Kitaev model belongs to an unconventional class of two-dimensional spin systems characterized by anisotropic, bond-dependent interactions that give rise to Quantum Spin Liquid (QSL) states. These exotic phases, marked by the absence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-29 A. R. Moura , L. V. Santos

Kitaev quantum spin liquids have attracted significant attention in condensed matter physics over the past decade. To understand their emergent quantum phenomena, high-quality single crystals of substantial size are essential. Here, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-18 Bowen Zhang , Xiangjun Li , Limin Yan , Wenbo Li , Nana Li , Jianfa Zhao , Xiaobing Liu , Shun-Li Yu , Zhiwei Hu , Wenge Yang , Runze Yu

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

We study the spin transport through the quantum spin liquid (QSL) by investigating the real-time and real-space dynamics of the Kitaev spin system with a zigzag structure in terms of the time-dependent Majorana mean-field theory. After the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-27 Tetsuya Minakawa , Yuta Murakami , Akihisa Koga , Joji Nasu

Kitaev materials are promising for realizing exotic quantum spin liquid phases, such as a non-Abelian chiral spin liquid. Motivated by recent experiments in these materials, we theoretically study the novel field-induced quantum phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-27 Liujun Zou , Yin-Chen He

Spin vacancies in the non-Abelian Kitaev spin liquid are known to harbor Majorana zero modes, potentially enabling topological quantum computing at elevated temperatures. Here, we study the spectroscopic signatures of such Majorana zero…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-21 Wen-Han Kao , Natalia B. Perkins , Gábor B. Halász

We explore a large $N$ generalization of the Kitaev model on the honeycomb lattice with a simple nearest-neighbor interacting Hamiltonian. In particular, we focus on the $\mathbb{Z}_4$ case with isotropic couplings, which is characterized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-16 Yu-Xin Yang , Meng Cheng , Ji-Yao Chen

Recent studies have brought $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$ to the forefront of experimental searches for materials realizing Kitaev spin-liquid physics. This material exhibits strongly anisotropic exchange interactions afforded by the spin-orbit…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-21 Stephen M. Winter , Kira Riedl , David Kaib , Radu Coldea , Roser Valenti

{\alpha}-RuCl3 is a Kitaev material suggested to be a proximate quantum spin liquid in a certain temperature and magnetic field range. Nonequilibrium measurements of transient dynamics have been proposed to detect fractionalized particles…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-23 Haochen Zhang , Subin Kim , Young-June Kim , Hae-Young Kee , Luyi Yang

In the Kitaev honeycomb model, the quantum spin fractionalizes into itinerant Majorana and gauge flux spontaneously upon cooling, leading to rich experimental ramifications at finite temperature and an upsurge of research interest. In this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-07 Han Li , Dai-Wei Qu , Hao-Kai Zhang , Yi-Zhen Jia , Shou-Shu Gong , Yang Qi , Wei Li

We study the effects of static magnetic and electric fields on Kitaev's honeycomb model. Using the electric polarization operator appropriate for Kitaev materials, we derive the effective Hamiltonian for the emergent Majorana fermions to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-05 Rajas Chari , Roderich Moessner , Jeffrey G. Rau

We study the extended Kitaev model called the K$\Gamma$ model, using a perturbative expansion combined with a well-controlled mean-field approximation and a cutting-edge exact diagonalization. In the phase diagram, we discover a nematic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-22 Masahiko G. Yamada , Satoshi Fujimoto

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) represent exotic states of matter where quantum spins interact strongly yet evade long-range magnetic order down to absolute zero. Characterized by non-local quantum entanglement and resultant fractionalized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-05 Yuji Matsuda , Takasada Shibauchi , Hae-Young Kee

It is proposed that the new generation of spintronics should be ideally massless and dissipationless for the realization of ultra-fast and ultra-low-power spintronic devices. We demonstrate that the spin-gapless materials with linear energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-14 Xiao-lin Wang