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Quantum many-body scars are nonthermal states exhibiting persistent revivals in an otherwise ergodic, nonintegrable quantum system. Here we leverage the phenomenon of kinetic frustration -- the destructive interference of multiple quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Zhuoli Ding , Ruben Verresen , Zoe Z. Yan

We study the spin-$S$ Kitaev-Heisenberg model on the honeycomb lattice for $S\!=\!1/2$, $1$ and $3/2$, by using the coupled cluster method (CCM) of microscopic quantum many-body theory. This system is one of the earliest extensions of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-15 Marios Georgiou , Ioannis Rousochatzakis , Damian J. J. Farnell , Johannes Richter , Raymond F. Bishop

Recently there has been considerable excitement surrounding the promising realization of high-spin Kitaev material, such as the quasi-2D compound CrI$_3$ and CrGeTe$_3$. However, the stability of quantum spin liquids (QSL) against single…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-01 Gui-Xin Liu , Ting-Long Wang , Yi-Fan Jiang

Spin squeezing protocols successfully generate entangled many-body quantum states, the key pillars of the second quantum revolution. In our recent work [Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 090403 (2022)] we showed that spin squeezing described by the…

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

The key to unraveling intriguing phenomena observed in various Kitaev materials lies in understanding the interplay of Kitaev ($K$) interaction and a symmetric off-diagonal $\Gamma$ interaction. To provide insight into the challenging…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-15 Qiang Luo , Jize Zhao , Xiaoqun Wang , Hae-Young Kee

We investigate the phenomenon of Hilbert space fragmentation (HSF) in open quantum systems and find that it can stabilize highly entangled steady states. For concreteness, we consider the Temperley-Lieb model, which exhibits quantum HSF in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-03 Yahui Li , Pablo Sala , Frank Pollmann

We study the Kitaev--Heisenberg model on a triangular lattice by using the two-dimensional density-matrix renormalization group method. Calculating the ground-state energy and spin structure factors, we obtain a ground-state phase diagram…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-04 Kazuya Shinjo , Shigetoshi Sota , Seiji Yunoki , Keisuke Totsuka , Takami Tohyama

In this work, we investigate the Kitaev honeycomb model employing the recently developed Clifford Circuits Augmented Matrix Product States (CAMPS) method. While the model in the gapped phase is known to reduce to the toric code model -…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-26 Xiang Li , Xiangjian Qian , Mingpu Qin

Higher-spin quantum magnets with competing interactions offer a rich platform for exploring quantum phases that transcend the paradigms of spin-1/2 systems, owing to their enlarged local Hilbert spaces and the emergence of multipolar…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-23 Zhiling Wei , Zhengzhong Du , Xiaodong Cao , Wen-Long You , Yi Lu

We study the extended Kitaev-Heisenberg (EKH) quantum spin model by adding bond-dependent off-diagonal Heisenberg term into the original KH model, which was recently proposed to describe the honeycomb Iridates. A rigorous mathematical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-01-29 Jie Lou , Long Liang , Yue Yu , Yan Chen

We study the transfer of quantum information through a Heisenberg spin-1 chain prepared in its ground state. We measure the efficiency of such a quantum channel {\em via} the fidelity of retrieving an arbitrarily prepared state and {\em…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Romero-Isart , K. Eckert , A. Sanpera

We study the role of the interaction range on the Hilbert space fragmentation and many-body scar states considering a spin-1/2 many-body Hamiltonian describing a generalized Fredkin spin chain. We show that both scar states and weak…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-21 Gianluca Francica , Luca Dell'Anna

We study an extended Kitaev-Heisenberg model including additional anisotropic couplings by using two-dimensional density-matrix renormalization group method. Calculating the gound-state energy, entanglement entropy, and spin-spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-02-20 Kazuya Shinjo , Shigetoshi Sota , Takami Tohyama

Kramers-Wannier duality, a hallmark of the Ising model, has recently gained renewed interest through its reinterpretation as a non-invertible symmetry with a state-level action. Using sequential quantum circuits (SQC), we argue that this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-16 Weslei B. Fontana , Fabrizio G. Oliviero , Yi-Ping Huang

Recent experimental observation of weak ergodicity breaking in Rydberg atom quantum simulators has sparked interest in quantum many-body scars - eigenstates which evade thermalisation at finite energy densities due to novel mechanisms that…

Unstable periodic orbits (UPOs) play a key role in the theory of chaos, constituting the "skeleton" of classical chaotic systems and "scarring" the eigenstates of the corresponding quantum system. Recently, nonthermal many-body eigenstates…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-11-26 Bertrand Evrard , Andrea Pizzi , Simeon I. Mistakidis , Ceren B. Dag

The main question we address is how to probe the fractionalized excitations of a quantum spin liquid (QSL), for example, in the Kitaev honeycomb model. By analyzing the energy spectrum and entanglement entropy, for antiferromagnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-08 David C. Ronquillo , Adu Vengal , Nandini Trivedi

We study disordered spin-1 quantum chains with random exchange and biquadratic interactions using a real space renormalization group approach. We find that the dimerized phase of the pure biquadratic model is unstable and gives rise to a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Beatriz Boechat , Andreia Saguia , Mucio Continentino

Topologically ordered phase has emerged as one of most exciting concepts that not only broadens our understanding of phases of matter, but also has been found to have potential application in fault-tolerant quantum computation. The direct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 Zhihuang Luo , Chao Lei , Jun Li , Xinfang Nie , Zhaokai Li , Xinhua Peng , Jiangfeng Du