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Quantum circuit dynamics with local projective measurements can realize a rich spectrum of entangled states of quantum matter. Motivated by the physics of the Kitaev quantum spin liquid [1], we study quantum circuit dynamics in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-08 Ali Lavasani , Zhu-Xi Luo , Sagar Vijay

Quantum spin liquid involves fractionalized quasipariticles such as spinons and visons. They are expressed as itinerant Majorana fermions and $Z_2$ fluxes in the Kitaev model with bond-dependent exchange interactions on a honeycomb spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-05 Y. Nagai , T. Jinno , Y. Yoshitake , J. Nasu , Y. Motome , M. Itoh , Y. Shimizu

While phase transitions between magnetic analogs of three states of matter --- a long-range ordered state, paramagnet, and spin liquid --- have been extensively studied, the possibility of "liquid-liquid" transitions, namely, between…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-05 Joji Nasu , Yasuyuki Kato , Junki Yoshitake , Yoshitomo Kamiya , Yukitoshi Motome

A decade ago, Alexei Kitaev proposed an exactly solvable $S$ = 1/2 model on a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice, where the spins fractionalize into Majorana fermions and form a topological quantum spin liquid (QSL) in the ground state. It…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-21 Hidenori Takagi , Tomohiro Takayama , George Jackeli , Giniyat Khaliullin , Stephen E. Nagler

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

The fractionalization of quantum numbers in interacting quantum-many body systems is a central motif in condensed matter physics with prominent examples including the fractionalization of the electron in quantum Hall liquids or the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-04-16 Maria Hermanns , Kevin O'Brien , Simon Trebst

The fractionalization of elementary excitations in quantum spin systems is a central theme in current condensed matter physics. The Kitaev honeycomb spin model provides a prominent example of exotic fractionalized quasiparticles, composed…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-21 A. Glamazda , P. Lemmens , S. -H. Do , Y. S. Choi , K. -Y. Choi

Quantum spin liquids realize massive entanglement and fractional quasiparticles from localized spins, proposed as an avenue for quantum science and technology. In particular, topological quantum computations are suggested in the non-abelian…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-19 Kyusung Hwang , Ara Go , Ji Heon Seong , Takasada Shibauchi , Eun-Gook Moon

The long-sought quantum spin liquid is a quantum-entangled magnetic state leading to the fractionalization of spin degrees of freedom. Quasiparticles emergent from the fractionalization affect not only the ground state properties but also…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-09-06 Junki Yoshitake , Joji Nasu , Yukitoshi Motome

Quantum spin liquids have fascinated condensed matter physicists for decades because of their unusual properties such as spin fractionalization and long-range entanglement. Unlike conventional symmetry breaking the topological order…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-22 Maria Hermanns , Itamar Kimchi , Johannes Knolle

The Kitaev model offers a platform for quantum spin liquids (QSLs) with fractional excitations, itinerant Majorana fermions and localized fluxes. Since these fractional excitations could be utilized for quantum computing, how to create,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-19 Takahiro Misawa , Joji Nasu , Yukitoshi Motome

We study how sharp signatures of fractionalization emerge in nonlinear spectroscopy experiments on spin liquids with separated energy scales. Our model is that of dipolar-octupolar rare earth pyrochlore materials, prime candidates for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-22 Mark Potts , Roderich Moessner , Owen Benton

Quantum spin liquids are highly fascinating quantum liquids in which the spin degrees of freedom fractionalize. An interesting class of spin liquids are the exactly solvable, three-dimensional Kitaev spin liquids. Their fractionalized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-22 Stephanie Matern , Maria Hermanns

Quantum entanglement in strongly correlated electron systems often leads to exotic elementary excitations. Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) provide a paradigmatic example, where the elementary excitations are described by fractional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-10 Yasuyuki Kato , Joji Nasu , Masahiro Sato , Tsuyoshi Okubo , Takahiro Misawa , Yukitoshi Motome

Topologically ordered states of matter are generically characterized by excitations with quantum number fractionalization. A prime example is the spin liquid realized in Kitaev's honeycomb-lattice compass model where spin-flip excitations…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-12 C. Wellm , J. Zeisner , A. Alfonsov , A. U. B. Wolter , M. Roslova , A. Isaeva , T. Doert , M. Vojta , B. Büchner , V. Kataev

In quantum spin liquids, fractional spinon excitations carry half-integer spins and other fractional quantum numbers of lattice and time-reversal symmetries. Different patterns of symmetry fractionalization distinguish different spin liquid…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-21 Yang Qi , Meng Cheng

The Kitaev model exhibits a Quantum Spin Liquid hosting emergent fractionalized excitations. We study the Kitaev model on the honeycomb lattice coupled to a magnetic field along the [111] axis. Utilizing large scale matrix product based…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-06 Matthias Gohlke , Roderich Moessner , Frank Pollmann

Quantum spin liquids (QSL) are exotic phases of matter that host fractionalized excitations. It is difficult for local probes to characterize QSL, whereas quantum entanglement can serve as a powerful diagnostic tool due to its non-locality.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-30 Wei Zhu , Xiao Chen , Yin-Chen He , William Witczak-Krempa

We provide an exact study of dynamical correlations for the quantum spin-orbital liquid phases of an SU(2)-symmetric Kitaev honeycomb lattice model. We show that the spin dynamics in this Kugel-Khomskii type model is exactly the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-07 Willian M. H. Natori , Johannes Knolle

One of the most important issues in modern condensed matter physics is the realization of fractionalized excitations, such as the Majorana excitations in the Kitaev quantum spin liquid. To this aim, the 3d-based Kitaev material Na2Co2TeO6…