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We investigate the emergence of bond-directional spin-spin interactions in a synthetic Fermi-Hubbard bilayer that can be realized with ultracold fermions in Raman optical lattices. The model exploits synthetic dimensions to couple two…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-11-19 Daniel González-Cuadra , Alejandro Bermudez

In the study of quantum spin liquids, the Kitaev model plays a pivotal role due to the fact that its ground state is exactly known as well as the fact that it may be realized in strongly frustrated materials such as ${\alpha}$-RuCl${}_3$.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-13 Axel Fünfhaus , Mikel García-Díez , M. G. Vergniory , Thilo Kopp , Stephen M. Winter , Roser Valentí

We have used a many-body model Hamiltonian to study the nature of the magnetic ground state of hetero-binuclear complexes involving rare-earth and copper ions. We have taken into account all diagonal repulsions involving the rare-earth 4f…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Indranil Rudra , C. Raghu , S. Ramasesha

Recent advances in the study of cobaltites have unveiled their potential as a promising platform for realizing Kitaev physics in honeycomb systems and the Ising model in weakly coupled chain materials. In this manuscript, we explore the…

We have performed inelastic neutron scattering experiments to investigate the magnetic excitations in the quasi-face-centered-cubic (fcc) iridate double perovskites La2ZnIrO6 and La2MgIrO6, which are characterized by A-type…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-02 A. A. Aczel , A. M. Cook , T. J. Williams , S. Calder , A. D. Christianson , G. -X. Cao , D. Mandrus , Y. B. Kim , A. Paramekanti

Honeycomb lattice Kitaev magnets exhibit exotic magnetic properties governed by the Kitaev interaction. This study delves into $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$, a prototypical example described by effective Hamiltonians encompassing bond-dependent Kitaev…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-29 Hamid Mosadeq , Mohammad-Hossein Zare

The Kitaev model, a honeycomb network of spins with bond-dependent anisotropic interactions, is a rare example of having a quantum spin liquid ground state. Although most Kitaev model candidate materials eventually order magnetically due to…

The search for a Kitaev quantum spin liquid in crystalline magnetic materials has fueled intense interest in the two-dimensional honeycomb systems. Many promising candidate Kitaev systems are characterized by a long range ordered magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-16 V. Ovidiu Garlea , Colin L. Sarkis

In the field of quantum magnetism, the exactly solvable Kitaev honeycomb model serves as a paradigm for the fractionalization of spin degrees of freedom and the formation of $\mathbb{Z}_2$ quantum spin liquids. An intense experimental…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-07 Ciarán Hickey , Simon Trebst

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

Spin-orbit coupled honeycomb magnets with the Kitaev interaction have received a lot of attention due to their potential of hosting exotic quantum states including quantum spin liquids. Thus far, the most studied Kitaev systems are…

Rare earth oxides have attracted interest as a platform for studying frustrated magnetism arising from bond dependent anisotropic interactions. Ordered rock salt compounds Na$_2$PrO$_3$ crystallize in two polymorphs ($\alpha$ and $\beta$)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-15 Ryutaro Okuma , Kylie MacFarquharson , Radu Coldea

Kitaev's honeycomb lattice spin model is a remarkable exactly solvable model, which has a particular type of spin liquid (Kitaev spin liquid) as the ground state. Although its possible realization in iridates and $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$ has been…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-07 Masahiko G. Yamada , Hiroyuki Fujita , Masaki Oshikawa

Anyonic excitations emerging from a Kitaev spin liquid can form a basis for quantum computers. Searching for such excitations motivated intense research on the honeycomb iridate materials. However, access to a spin liquid ground state has…

We present an augmented parton mean-field theory which (i) reproduces the $exact$ ground state, spectrum, and dynamics of the quantum spin liquid phase of Kitaev's honeycomb model; and (ii) is amenable to the inclusion of integrability…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-03 Johannes Knolle , Subhro Bhattacharjee , Roderich Moessner

In recent years, a lot of effort has been devoted to the quest for experimental realizations of Kitaev interactions in spin systems. Recently, many materials have been synthesized which seem to realize extended Kitaev models, where Kitaev…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-05 Maria Laura Baez

In recent years, there has been an intense search for materials realizing the Kitaev quantum spin liquid model. A number of edge-shared compounds with strong spin-orbit coupling, such as RuCl$_3$ and iridates, have been proposed to realize…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-28 Umesh Kumar , Saikat Banerjee , Shi-Zeng Lin

We study a spin model on honeycomb lattice with two types of Heisenberg exchange couplings, $J$ and $\tilde J$, where $J$ is for the conventional spin and and $\tilde J$ for rotated spin. When $\tilde J=0$, this is the conventional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-04 Yue Yu , Long Liang , Qian Niu , Shaojing Qin

We present a detailed study of quantum simulations of coupled spin systems in surface-electrode ion-trap arrays, and illustrate our findings with a proposed implementation of the hexagonal Kitaev model [A. Kitaev, Annals of Physics 321,2…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-01 Roman Schmied , Janus H. Wesenberg , Dietrich Leibfried

Materials manifesting the Kitaev model, characterized by bond-dependent interactions on a honeycomb lattice, can host exotic phenomena like quantum spin liquid states and topological magnetic excitations. However, finding such materials…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-31 Yiqing Gu , Yimeng Gu , Feiyang Liu , Seiko Ohira-Kawamura , Naoki Murai , Jun Zhao