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We develop a quantum simulation-based approach for studying properties of strongly correlated magnetic materials at increasing scale. We consider a paradigmatic example of a quantum spin liquid (QSL) state hosted by the honeycomb Kitaev…

Motivated by the three-dimensional structure of Kitaev materials we explore multilayer Kitaev models. The magnetic properties of a multilayer of an arbitrary number of Kitaev honeycomb layers stacked on top of each other coupled through a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-05 Jaime Merino , Arnaud Ralko

Elementary excitations in highly entangled states such as quantum spin liquids may exhibit exotic statistics, different from those obeyed by fundamental bosons and fermions. Excitations called non-Abelian anyons are predicted to exist in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-11 Jacob S. Gordon , Andrei Catuneanu , Erik S. Sørensen , Hae-Young Kee

We investigate the quantum spin liquid (QSL) ground state of anisotropic Kitaev model with antiferromagnetic (AFM) coupling under the $[001]$ magnetic field with the finite-temperature Lanczos method (FTLM). In this anisotropic AFM Kitaev…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-29 Shi-Qing Jia , Ya-Min Quan , Hai-Qing Lin , Liang-Jian Zou

$\alpha$-RuCl$_3$ is a leading candidate material for theobservation of physics related to the Kitaev quantum spin liquid (QSL). By combined susceptibility, specific-heat, and nuclear-magnetic-resonance measurements, we demonstrate that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-12 Jiacheng Zheng , Kejing Ran , Tianrun Li , Jinghui Wang , Pengshuai Wang , Bin Liu , Zhengxin Liu , B. Normand , Jinsheng Wen , Weiqiang Yu

This article is an introductory review of the physics of quantum spin liquid (QSL) states. Quantum magnetism is a rapidly evolving field, and recent developments reveal that the ground states and low-energy physics of frustrated spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-21 Yi Zhou , Kazushi Kanoda , Tai-Kai Ng

The spin liquid phase is one of the prominent strongly interacting topological phases of matter whose unambiguous confirmation is yet to be reached despite intensive experimental efforts on numerous candidate materials. Recently, a new…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-10 Andrei Catuneanu , Youhei Yamaji , Gideon Wachtel , Yong Baek Kim , Hae-Young Kee

The main question we address is how to probe the fractionalized excitations of a quantum spin liquid (QSL), for example, in the Kitaev honeycomb model. By analyzing the energy spectrum and entanglement entropy, for antiferromagnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-08 David C. Ronquillo , Adu Vengal , Nandini Trivedi

The Kitaev quantum spin liquid (KSL) is a theoretically predicted state of matter whose fractionalized quasiparticles are distinct from bosonic magnons, the fundamental excitation in ordered magnets. The layered honeycomb antiferromagnet…

Kitaev materials are promising for realizing exotic quantum spin liquid phases, such as a non-Abelian chiral spin liquid. Motivated by recent experiments in these materials, we theoretically study the novel field-induced quantum phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-27 Liujun Zou , Yin-Chen He

A quantum spin liquid (QSL) is an exotic insulating phase with emergent gauge fields and fractionalized excitations. However, the unambiguous demonstration of the existence of a QSL in a "non-engineered" microscopic model (or in any…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-01 Xun Cai , Zhaoyu Han , Zi-Xiang Li , Steven A. Kivelson , Hong Yao

Unambiguous identification of the Kitaev quantum spin liquid (QSL) in materials remains a huge challenge despite many encouraging signs from various measurements. To facilitate the experimental detection of the Kitaev QSL, here we propose…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-24 Saikat Banerjee , Shi-Zeng Lin

Ultracold atoms and molecules trapped in optical lattices are expected to serve as simulators of strongly correlated systems and topological states of matter. A fascinating example is to realize the Kitaev quantum spin liquid by using…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-29 Kiyu Fukui , Yasuyuki Kato , Joji Nasu , Yukitoshi Motome

A quantum spin liquid (QSL) is a novel phase of matter with long-range entanglement where localized spins are highly correlated with the vanishing of magnetic order. Such exotic quantum states provide the opportunities to develop new…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-21 Wen-Yuan Liu , Juraj Hasik , Shou-Shu Gong , Didier Poilblanc , Wei-Qiang Chen , Zheng-Cheng Gu

Recent experimental evidence for a field-induced quantum spin liquid (QSL) in $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$ calls for an understanding for the ground state of honeycomb Kitaev model under a magnetic field. In this work we address the nature of an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-04 Hong-Chen Jiang , Chang-Yan Wang , Biao Huang , Yuan-Ming Lu

Quantum spin liquids (QSL) are theoretical states of matter with long-range entanglement and exotic quasiparticles. However, they generally elude quantitative theory, rendering their underlying phases mysterious and hampering efforts to…

A new quantum spin liquid (QSL) candidate material H$_{3}$LiIr$_{2}$O$_{6}$ was synthesized recently and was found not to show any magnetic order or phase transition down to low temperatures. In this work, we study the quantum dynamics of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-17 Shuai Wang , Long Zhang , Fa Wang

A quantum spin liquid (QSL) is a state of matter in which magnetic spins interact strongly, but quantum fluctuations inhibit long-range magnetic order even at zero temperature. A QSL has been predicted to have a host of exotic properties,…

We report a $^{35}$Cl nuclear magnetic resonance study in the honeycomb lattice, $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$, a material that has been suggested to potentially realize a Kitaev quantum spin liquid (QSL) ground state. Our results provide direct…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-26 S. -H. Baek , S. -H. Do , K. -Y. Choi , Y. S. Kwon , A. U. B. Wolter , S. Nishimoto , Jeroen van den Brink , B. Büchner

We examine the spectroscopic signatures of tunneling through a Kitaev quantum spin liquid (QSL) barrier in a number of experimentally relevant geometries. We combine contributions from elastic and inelastic tunneling processes and find that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-04 Elio J. König , Mallika T. Randeria , Berthold Jäck