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Organic solids host various electronic phases. Especially, a milestone compound of organic solid, $\beta'$-$X$[Pd(dmit)$_2$]$_2$ with $X$=EtMe$_3$Sb shows quantum spin-liquid (QSL) properties suggesting a novel state of matter. However,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-29 Kota Ido , Kazuyoshi Yoshimi , Takahiro Misawa , Masatoshi Imada

In addition to the Kitaev ($K$) interaction, candidate Kitaev materials also possess Heisenberg ($J$) and off-diagonal symmetric ($\Gamma$) couplings. We investigate the quantum ($S = 1/2$) $K$-$J$-$\Gamma$ model on the honeycomb lattice by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-14 Jiucai Wang , B. Normand , Zheng-Xin Liu

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are long-range entangled phases of frustrated magnets exhibiting fractionalized spin excitations. In two dimensions, there is limited analytical understanding of their excitation spectra beyond parton mean-field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-01 Josef Willsher , Johannes Knolle

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

While many-body systems can host long-ranged entangled quantum spin liquids (QSLs), the ingredients for realizing these as ground states can be prohibitively difficult. In many circumstances, one requires (i) a constrained Hilbert space and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-14 Rahul Sahay , Ashvin Vishwanath , Ruben Verresen

Kitaev materials are promising materials for hosting quantum spin liquids and investigating the interplay of topological and symmetry-breaking phases. We use an unsupervised and interpretable machine-learning method, the tensorial-kernel…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-06 Ke Liu , Nicolas Sadoune , Nihal Rao , Jonas Greitemann , Lode Pollet

The exactly solvable Kitaev model on the honeycomb lattice has recently received enormous attention linked to the hope of achieving novel spin-liquid states with fractionalized Majorana-like excitations. In this review, we analyze the…

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) host emergent, fractionalized fermionic excitations that are charge-neutral. Identifying clear experimental signatures of these excitations remains a central challenge in the field of strongly correlated systems,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-04 Penghao Zhu , Archisman Panigrahi , Leonid Levitov , Nandini Trivedi

Quantum spin liquids~(QSLs) represent a unique quantum disordered state of matter that hosts long-range quantum entanglement and fractional excitations. However, structural disorder resulting from site mixing between different types of ions…

In recent years, several magnetic Mott insulators with strong spin-orbit couplings were suggested to be proximate to the Kitaev quantum spin liquid (QSL) whose one of the most exciting features is the fractionalization of spin excitations…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-05 Wen-Han Kao , Natalia B. Perkins

We study the exchange interactions and resulting magnetic phases in the honeycomb cobaltates. For a broad range of trigonal crystal fields acting on Co2+ ions, the low-energy pseudospin-1/2 Hamiltonian is dominated by bond-dependent Ising…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-23 Huimei Liu , Jiri Chaloupka , Giniyat Khaliullin

The non-integrable higher spin Kitaev honeycomb model has an exact $\mathbb{Z}_2$ gauge structure, which exclusively identifies quantum spin liquid (QSL) in the half-integer spin Kitaev model. But its constraints for the integer-spin Kitaev…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-09 Zhengzhi Wu , Jing-yun Zhang , Hong Yao

We establish the existence of a chiral spin liquid (CSL) as the exact ground state of the Kitaev model on a decorated honeycomb lattice, which is obtained by replacing each site in the familiar honeycomb lattice with a triangle. The CSL…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Hong Yao , Steven A. Kivelson

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are fluid-like states of quantum spins where its long-range ordered state is destroyed by quantum fluctuations. The ground state of QSL and its exotic phenomena, which have been extensively discussed for decades,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-10-25 Minoru Yamashita , Takasada Shibauchi , Yuji Matsuda

By including a material-relevant off-diagonal interaction called the $\Gamma$ term into the Kitaev model and introducing spatial anisotropy in the interaction strength on the honeycomb lattice, we obtain a series of nodal Z$_2$ quantum spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-15 Jiucai Wang , Zheng-Xin Liu

Quantum spin liquid (QSL) is a novel state of matter with exotic excitations and was theoretically predicted to be realized most possibly in an S=1/2 kagome antiferromagnet. Experimentally searching for the candidate materials is a big…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-15 Yuesheng Li , Bingying Pan , Shiyan Li , Wei Tong , Langsheng Ling , Zhaorong Yang , Junfeng Wang , Zhongjun Chen , Zhonghua Wu , Qingming Zhang

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are highly entangled, disordered magnetic states that arise in frustrated Mott insulators and host exotic fractional excitations such as spinons and chargons. Despite being charge insulators some QSLs are…

Quantum spin liquids may be considered "quantum disordered" ground states of spin systems, in which zero point fluctuations are so strong that they prevent conventional magnetic long range order. More interestingly, quantum spin liquids are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-21 Lucile Savary , Leon Balents

The Kitaev model, which hosts a quantum spin liquid (QSL) in the ground state, was originally defined on a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice, but can be straightforwardly extended to any tricoordinate lattices in any spatial dimensions. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-29 Kiyu Fukui , Yasuyuki Kato , Yukitoshi Motome

Classical spin liquids (CSLs) are intriguing states of matter that do not exhibit long-range magnetic order and are characterized by an extensive ground-state degeneracy. Adding quantum fluctuations, which induce dynamics between these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-12 Duyu Chen , Rhine Samajdar , Yang Jiao , Salvatore Torquato