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Effects of bond randomness and site dilution are systematically investigated for the Kitaev model describing a quantum spin liquid with fractional excitations of itinerant Majorana fermions and localized fluxes. We find that, in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-02 Joji Nasu , Yukitoshi Motome

We investigate the impact of two types of disorder, bond randomness and site dilution, on the spin dynamics in the Kitaev model on a honeycomb lattice. The ground state of this model is a canonical quantum spin liquid with spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-14 Joji Nasu , Yukitoshi Motome

We study effects of perturbation Hamiltonian to quantum spin systems which can include quenched disorder. Model-independent inequalities are derived, using an additional artificial disordered perturbation. These inequalities enable us to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 C. Itoi

The Kitaev spin liquid, stabilized as the ground state of the Kitaev honeycomb model, is a paradigmatic example of a topological $\mathbb{Z}_2$ quantum spin liquid. The fate of the Kitaev spin liquid in presence of an external magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-04 Will Holdhusen , Daniel Huerga , Gerardo Ortiz

We study superconductivity in a two-dimensional, disordered marginal Fermi liquid. At the semiclassical level, the transition temperature $T_c$ is strongly suppressed because marginal Fermi liquid effects destroy well-defined…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-07 Tsz Chun Wu , Patrick A. Lee , Matthew S. Foster

We study the interplay of disorder and Heisenberg interactions in Kitaev model on honeycomb lattice. The effect of disorder on the transition between Kitaev spin liquid and magnetic ordered states as well as the stability of magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-13 Ayushi Singhania , Jeroen van den Brink , Satoshi Nishimoto

We analyse the dynamical response of a range of 3D Kitaev quantum spin-liquids, using lattice models chosen to explore the different possible low-energy spectra for gapless Majorana fermions, with either Fermi surfaces, nodal lines or Weyl…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-29 A. Smith , J. Knolle , D. L. Kovrizhin , J. T. Chalker , R. Moessner

We study an exactly solvable quantum spin model of Kitaev type on the kagome lattice. We find a rich phase diagram which includes a topological (gapped) chiral spin liquid with gapless chiral edge states, and a gapless chiral spin liquid…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-17 Victor Chua , Hong Yao , Gregory A. Fiete

Temperature evolution of the spin correlation and excitation spectrum is investigated for a Kitaev model defined on a decorated honeycomb lattice by using the quantum Monte Carlo simulation in the Majorana fermion representation. The ground…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-17 Joji Nasu , Yukitoshi Motome

The Kitaev honeycomb model (KHM) consists of spin-$1/2$ particles on a honeycomb lattice with direction-dependent Ising-like interactions. It can alternatively be described in terms of non-interacting Majorana fermions, can be solved…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-10 Alexander Sattler , Maria Daghofer

We construct an exactly solvable spin-orbital model on a decorated square lattice that realizes an SU(2)-invariant Majorana spin liquid with parton Fermi surfaces, of the kind discussed recently by Biswas et al. [ Phys. Rev. B. {\bf 83},…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-09-29 Hsin-Hua Lai , Olexei I. Motrunich

Kitaev's model of spins interacting on a honeycomb lattice describes a quantum spin-liquid, where an emergent static $\mathbb{Z}_2$ gauge field is coupled to Majorana fermions. In the presence of an external magnetic field and for a range…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-21 Daniel Otten , Ananda Roy , Fabian Hassler

This pedagogical article is aimed to the beginning graduate students interested in broad field of frustrated magnetism. We introduce and present some of the exact results obtained in Kitaev model. The Kitaev model embodies an unusual two…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-23 Saptarshi Mandal , Arun M Jayannavar

We unveil an interesting example of topological flat bands of Majorana fermions in quantum spin liquids. We study the Kitaev model on a periodically depleted honeycomb lattice, under a magnetic field within the perturbation theory. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-10 Kiyu Fukui , Yukitoshi Motome

We study the effects of spin-antisymmetric interactions on the stability of a Landau-Fermi liquid on the square lattice, using the generalized Pomeranchuk method for two-dimensional lattice systems. In particular, we analyze interactions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-24 P. Rodriguez Ponte , D. C. Cabra , N. Grandi

We present a two-dimensional lattice model for quantum spin-1/2 for which the low-energy limit is governed by four flavors of strongly interacting Majorana fermions. We study this low-energy effective theory using two alternative…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-19 Jyong-Hao Chen , Christopher Mudry , Claudio Chamon , A. M. Tsvelik

We study one dimensional wires with spin-orbit coupling. We show that in the presence of Zeeman field and strong electron-electron interaction a clean wire may form fractional helical liquid states with phenomenology similar to fractional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-03-12 Yuval Oreg , Eran Sela , Ady Stern

We describe two dimensional models with a metallic Fermi surface which display quantum phase transitions controlled by strongly interacting critical field theories below their upper critical dimension. The primary examples involve…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Subir Sachdev , Takao Morinari

We study the nature of superfluid pairing in imbalanced Fermi mixtures in two spatial dimensions. We present evidence that the combined effect of Fermi surface mismatch and order parameter fluctuations of the superfluid condensate can lead…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-04-22 Philipp Strack , Pawel Jakubczyk

Exact solutions for non-Hermitian quantum many-body systems are rare but may provide valuable insights into the interplay between Hermitian and non-Hermitian components. We report our investigation of a non-Hermitian variant of a p-wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Y. B. Shi , Z. Song