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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 the extended Kitaev model called the K$\Gamma$ model, using a perturbative expansion combined with a well-controlled mean-field approximation and a cutting-edge exact diagonalization. In the phase diagram, we discover a nematic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-22 Masahiko G. Yamada , Satoshi Fujimoto

The quantum Hall effect (QHE) in two-dimensional (2D) electron gases, which is one of the most striking phenomena in condensed matter physics, involves the topologically protected dissipationless charge current flow along the edges of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-02 Y. Kasahara , T. Ohnishi , Y. Mizukami , O. Tanaka , Sixiao Ma , K. Sugii , N. Kurita , H. Tanaka , J. Nasu , Y. Motome , T. Shibauchi , Y. Matsuda

We study how stable the Majorana-mediated spin transport in a quantum spin Kitaev model is against thermal fluctuations. Using the time-dependent thermal pure quantum state method, we examine finite-temperature spin dynamics in the Kitaev…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-30 Hirokazu Taguchi , Yuta Murakami , Akihisa Koga

We study the zero-temperature phase diagram of the 2D spin-imbalanced Fermi gas with short-ranged attractive interactions using the recently developed neural network variational Monte Carlo method with the AGPs FermiNet Ansatz. The…

The realization of quantum spin liquids (QSLs) in Kitaev magnets represents an intriguing topic in frustrated quantum magnetism. Despite prediction in the pure Kitaev honeycomb model, realization of QSLs in realistic systems and materials…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-11 Han Li , Xu-Guang Zhou , Gang Su , Wei Li

Zero energy modes are shown to exist in silicene under suitably chosen magnetic as well as electric fields. Two Majorana modes are found on the application of opposite local magnetization on the silicene sub-lattices. We identify a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-01-15 Anant Vijay Varma , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

Spin chains proximitized with superconducting condensates have emerged as one of the most promising platforms for the realization of Majorana modes. Here, we craft diluted spin chains atom-by-atom following seminal theoretical proposal…

We determine the phase diagrams of anisotropic Kitaev-Heisenberg models on the honeycomb lattice using parton mean-field theories based on different Majorana fermion representations of the $S=1/2$ spin operators. Firstly, we use a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-21 Shahnam Ghanbari Saheli , Jennifer Lin , Huanzhi Hu , Frank Krüger

We show that the $\nu=8$ integer quantum Hall state can support Majorana zero modes at domain walls between its two different stable chiral edge phases without superconductivity. This is due to the existence of an edge phase that does not…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-08 Jennifer Cano , Meng Cheng , Maissam Barkeshli , David J. Clarke , Chetan Nayak

We theoretically study Landau quantization of itinerant Majorana quasiparticles induced by lattice strain in a Kitaev spin liquid with Majorana Fermi surfaces. We consider the isotropic spin-1/2 Kitaev model on the honeycomb lattice with a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-16 Takayuki Yokoyama , Yasuhiro Tada

Quantum spin liquids subject to a periodic drive can display fascinating non-equilibrium heating behavior because of their emergent fractionalized quasi-particles. Here, we investigate a driven Kitaev honeycomb model and examine the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-13 Hui-Ke Jin , Johannes Knolle , Michael Knap

We investigate the topological phase diagram of {an extension of the Haldane model with equal spin pairing superconductivity}. In two dimensions, we find a topological nodal superconducting phase, which exhibits a chiral Majorana mode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Simone Traverso , Niccolò Traverso Ziani , Maura Sassetti , Fernando Dominguez

We introduce a frustration-free, one-dimensional model of spinless fermions with hopping, p-wave superconducting pairing and alternating chemical potentials. The model possesses two exactly degenerate ground states even for finite system…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-28 Jurriaan Wouters , Hosho Katsura , Dirk Schuricht

We study a quantum spin Kitaev model with zigzag edges to clarify the effects of anisotropy in the exchange couplings on the spin propagation. We simulate the spin and Majorana dynamics triggered by a magnetic pulse, using the real-space…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-04 Hirokazu Taguchi , Yuta Murakami , Akihisa Koga , Joji Nasu

We study a dimerised spin chain with biaxial magnetic interacting ions in the presence of an externally induced three-site interactions out of equilibrium. In the general case, the three-site interactions play a role in renormalizing the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-06 Wen-Long You , Cheng-Jie Zhang , Weihai Ni , Ming Gong , Andrzej M. Oleś

Motivated by recent experimental breakthroughs in generating spin-orbit coupling in ultracold Fermi gases using Raman laser beams, we present a systematic study of spin-orbit-coupled Fermi gases confined in a quasi-one-dimensional trap in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-19 Lei Jiang , Eite Tiesinga , Xia-Ji Liu , Hui Hu , Han Pu

We study the effective low-energy fermionic theory of the Kondo-Kitaev model to leading order in the Kondo coupling. Our main goal is to understand the nature of the superconducting instability induced in the proximate metal due to its…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-07 Sondre Duna Lundemo , Asle Sudbø

Entangling a pair of far-distant qubits in many-body systems has been a challenging task in quantum computing. A robust entanglement was predicted in the rainbow states and generating nonlocal Bell pairs protected by a mirror symmetry was…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-10 Haoting Xu , Hae-Young Kee

Quantum spin liquids are exotic states of matter that may be realized in frustrated quantum magnets and feature fractionalized excitations and emergent gauge fields. Here, we consider a gapless U(1) spin liquid with spinon Fermi pockets in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-25 Wilhelm G. F. Krüger , Lukas Janssen