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Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) form an extremely unusual magnetic state in which the spins are highly correlated and fluctuate coherently down to the lowest temperatures, but without symmetry breaking and without the formation of any static…

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

The Kitaev model belongs to an unconventional class of two-dimensional spin systems characterized by anisotropic, bond-dependent interactions that give rise to Quantum Spin Liquid (QSL) states. These exotic phases, marked by the absence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-29 A. R. Moura , L. V. Santos

Topological states of matter such as quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are of great interest because of their remarkable predicted properties including protection of quantum information and the emergence of Majorana fermions. Such QSLs, however,…

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 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

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

Quantum spin liquids can arise from Kitaev magnetic interactions, and exhibit fractionalized excitations with the potential for a topological form of quantum computation. This review surveys recent experimental and theoretical progress on…

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are topologically ordered exotic states of matter that host fractionalized excitations. Kitaev proposed a particular route towards a QSL via strongly bond-dependent interactions on the hexagonal lattice. A number…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-06 Xinshu Zhang , Yuanyuan Xu , T. Halloran , Ruidan Zhong , R. J. Cava , C. Broholm , N. Drichko , N. P. Armitage

The Kitaev spin liquid provides a rare example of well-established quantum spin liquids in more than one dimension. It is obtained as the exact ground state of the Kitaev spin model with bond-dependent anisotropic interactions. The peculiar…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-14 Y. Motome , R. Sano , S. -H. Jang , Y. Sugita , Y. Kato

Quantum spin liquids, a highly topologically entangled, dynamically correlated state where quantum fluctuations preclude any long-range ordering down to absolute zero. In the search for a topologically robust qubit, the scientific community…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-11 Vivek Kumar , Pradeep Kumar

The possible existence of a quantum spin liquid (QSL) phase, an exotic state of matter with long-range quantum entanglement and fractionalized excitations, in $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$ has sparked widespread interests in exploring QSLs in various…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-04 Shun-Yao Yu , Han Li , Qi-Rong Zhao , Yuan Gao , Xiao-Yu Dong , Zheng-Xin Liu , Wei Li , Shou-Shu Gong

Kitaev iridates have been proposed as candidates for realizing an elusive quantum spin liquid (QSL) state, in which strong spin-orbit coupling and bond-directional exchange generate a highly frustrated and entangled ground state. However,…

Transitions between quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are fundamental problems lying beyond the Landau paradigm and requiring a deep understanding of the entanglement structures of QSLs called topological orders. The novel concept of anyon…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-04-10 Kyusung Hwang

Material realizations of the bond-dependent Kitaev interactions with $S$=1/2 local moments have vitalized the research in quantum spin liquids. Recently, it has been proposed that higher-spin analogues of the Kitaev interactions may also…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-24 Ilia Khait , P. Peter Stavropoulos , Hae-Young Kee , Yong Baek Kim

The quantum spin liquid (QSL) state has been searched intensively in Kitaev-like materials, such as the Iridium oxides $A_2$IrO$_3$ and $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$. The half-filled Kitaev-Hubbard model with bond dependent hopping terms is used to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-06 Shaojun Dong , Hao Zhang , Chao Wang , Meng Zhang , Yong-Jian Han , Lixin He

Anderson proposed structural topology in frustrated magnets hosting novel quantum spin liquids (QSLs). The QSL state is indeed exactly derived by fractionalizing the spin excitation into spinless Majorana fermions in a perfect two…

The pursuit of quantum spin liquid (QSL) in the Kitaev honeycomb magnets has drawn intensive attention recently. In particular, $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$ has been widely recognized as a promising candidate for the Kitaev QSL. Although the compound…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-29 Han Li , Wei Li , Gang Su

In transition-metal compounds with partially filled $4d$ and $5d$ shells spin-orbit entanglement, electronic correlations, and crystal-field effects conspire to give rise to a variety of novel forms of topological quantum matter. This…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-26 Simon Trebst

A glance at recent research on magnetism turns up a curious set of articles discussing, or claiming evidence for, a state of matter called a quantum spin liquid (QSL). These articles are notable in their invocation of exotic notions of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-31 T. Lancaster
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