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We theoretically investigate the frictional drag induced by the Coulomb interaction between spa- tially separated massless and massive fermions at low temperatures. As a model system, we use a double-layer structure composed of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-20 Benedikt Scharf , Alex Matos-Abiague

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

We study the 3D Kitaev and Kitaev-Heisenberg models respectively on the hyperhoneycomb and hyperoctagon lattices, both at zero and finite-temperature, in the thermodynamic limit. Our analysis relies on advanced tensor network (TN)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-08 Saeed S. Jahromi , Hadi Yarloo , Roman Orus

We found a plateau in the magnitude of the isolated magnetic moments as a function of the anisotropy of the transfer integral (t'/t) in the gapless quantum spin liquid (QSL) phase of an S=1/2 triangular lattice molecular solid X[Pd(dmit)2]2…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-20 K. Ueda , S. Fujiyama , R. Kato

Pursuing fractionalized particles that do not bear properties of conventional measurable objects, exemplified by bare particles in the vacuum such as electrons and elementary excitations such as magnons, is a challenge in physics. Here we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-17 Yusuke Nomura , Masatoshi Imada

A quantum spin liquid (QSL) is an exotic state in which electron spins are highly entangled, yet keep fluctuating even at zero temperature. Experimental realization of model QSLs has been challenging due to imperfections, such as antisite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-25 Huanpeng Bu , Malik Ashtar , Toni Shiroka , Helen C. Walker , Zhendong Fu , Jinkui Zhao , Jason S. Gardner , Gang Chen , Zhaoming Tian , Hanjie Guo

Quantum spin liquid (QSL), a state characterized by exotic low energy fractionalized excitations and statistics is still elusive experimentally and may be gauged via indirect experimental signatures. Remnant of QSL phase may reflect in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-29 Vivek Kumar , Deepu Kumar , Birender Singh , Yuliia Shemerliuk , Mahdi Behnami , Bernd Buchner , Saicharan Aswartham , Pradeep Kumar

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

We derive an expression for the drag rate (i.e., interlayer momentum transfer rate) for carriers in two coupled two-dimensional gases to lowest nonvanishing order in the screened interlayer electron--electron interaction, valid for {\sl…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Karsten Flensberg , Ben Yu-Kuang Hu

Recent experimental evidence for a field-induced quantum spin liquid (QSL) in $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$ calls for an understanding for the ground state of honeycomb Kitaev model under a magnetic field. In this work we address the nature of an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-04 Hong-Chen Jiang , Chang-Yan Wang , Biao Huang , Yuan-Ming Lu

The quantum spin liquid (QSL) state is an exotic state of matter featuring a high degree of entanglement and lack of long-range magnetic order in the zero-temperature limit. The triangular antiferromagnet YbMgGaO4 is a candidate QSL host,…

One-dimensional (1D) quantum wires provide a versatile platform for studying strong electron-electron interactions and collective excitations under confinement. Coulomb drag between 1D systems offers a powerful probe of Tomonaga-Luttinger…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Mingyang Zheng , Rebika Makaju , Rasul Gazizulin , Alex Levchenko , Sadhvikas J. Addamane , Dominique Laroche

The 4d-electron trimer lattice exhibits either a quantum spin liquid (QSL) or a heavy-fermion strange metal (HFSM) phase, depending on Nb content. In the QSL state, itinerant spinons act as effective heat carriers, enhancing thermal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-24 Yu Zhang , Hengdi Zhao , Tristan R. Cao , Rahul Nandkishore , Pedro Schlottmann , Lance Delong , Gang Cao

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) host a variety of fractionalized particles. In Kitaev's paradigmatic honeycomb model a spin-$\tfrac{1}{2}$ fractionalizes into $Z_2$ flux due to emergent $Z_2$ gauge field and matter Majorana fermions. Although…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-22 Shi Feng , Nandini Trivedi

We theoretically study Coulomb drag between two helical edges with broken spin-rotational symmetry, such as would occur in two capacitively coupled quantum spin Hall insulators. For the helical edges, Coulomb drag is particularly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-13 N. Kainaris , I. V. Gornyi , A. Levchenko , D. G. Polyakov

We investigate the edge magnetism and the spin transport properties of an SU(2)-symmetric Kitaev spin liquid (KSL) model put forward by Yao and Lee [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{107}, 087205 (2011)] on the honeycomb lattice. In this model, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-10 V. S. de Carvalho , H. Freire , E. Miranda , R. G. Pereira

We consider a hydrodynamic description of transport for generic two dimensional electron systems that lack Galilean invariance and do not fall into the category of Fermi liquids. We study magnetoresistance and show that it is governed only…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-13 Aavishkar A. Patel , Richard A. Davison , Alex Levchenko

We investigate the effect of Coulomb drag resistance in a bilayer system of strongly correlated electron liquids magnetized by an in-plane field employing the framework of hydrodynamic theory. We identify a mechanism for drag…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-04 Dmitry Zverevich , Ilya Esterlis , Alex Levchenko

Quantum spin liquid (QSL) is an exotic quantum phase of matter whose ground state is quantum-mechanically entangled without any magnetic ordering. A central issue concerns emergent excitations that characterize QSLs, which are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-08 Y. Tokiwa , T. Yamashita , D. Terazawa , K. Kimura , Y. Kasahara , T. Onishi , Y. Kato , M. Halim , P. Gegenwart , T. Shibauchi , S. Nakatsuji , E. -G. Moon , Y. Matsuda

Quantum spin liquid is an elusive state that display strong many-body entanglement with potential applications in future quantum computing. This study reports muon spin relaxation ($\mu^+$SR) measurements on a novel high-pressure…