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Kitaev spin liquid (KSL) system has attracted tremendous attention in past years because of its fundamental significance in condensed matter physics and promising applications in fault-tolerant topological quantum computation. Material…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-05 Jianting Ji , Mengjie Sun , Yanzhen Cai , Yimeng Wang , Yingqi Sun , Wei Ren , Zheng Zhang , Feng Jin , Qingming Zhang

The honeycomb-lattice cobaltate Na$_3$Co$_2$SbO$_6$ has recently been proposed to be a proximate Kitaev quantum spin liquid~(QSL) candidate. However, non-Kitaev terms in the Hamiltonian lead to a zigzag-type antiferromagnetic~(AFM) order at…

There have been constant efforts to find exotic quantum spin-liquid (QSL) materials. Some of the transition metal insulators dominated by the direction dependent anisotropic exchange interaction (Kitaev model for honeycomb network of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-17 S. Rayaprol , K. K. Iyer , A. Hoser , M. Reehuis , A. V. Morozkin , V. Siruguri , K. Maiti , E. V. Sampathkumaran

Quantum spin liquids (QSL) are phases of matter which are distinguished not by the symmetries they break, but rather by the patterns of entanglement within them. Although these entanglement properties have been widely discussed for ground…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-10 Snigdh Sabharwal , Matthias Gohlke , Paul Skrzypczyk , Nic Shannon

Quantum fluctuations enhanced by frustration and subtle interplay between competing degrees of freedom offer an ideal ground to realize novel states with fractional quantum numbers in quantum materials that defy standard theoretical…

Quantum spin liquids (QSL) have generated considerable excitement as phases of matter with emergent gauge structures and fractionalized excitations. In this context, phase transitions out of QSLs have been widely discussed as Higgs…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-15 Hyeok-Jun Yang , Nic Shannon , SungBin Lee

The spin S=$\frac{1}{2}$ Kitaev honeycomb model has attracted significant attention, since emerging candidate materials have provided a playground to test non-Abelian anyons. The Kitaev model with higher spins has also been theoretically…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-24 P. Peter Stavropoulos , D. Pereira , Hae-Young Kee

Recent thermal-conductivity measurements evidence a magnetic-field-induced non-Abelian spin liquid phase in the Kitaev material $\alpha$-$\mathrm{RuCl}_{3}$. Although the platform is a good Mott insulator, we propose experiments that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-22 David Aasen , Roger S. K. Mong , Benjamin M. Hunt , David Mandrus , Jason Alicea

The search for Kitaev quantum spin liquids (Kitaev-QSLs) in real materials has mainly focused on $4d$- and $5d$-electron honeycomb systems. A recent experimental study on the $4f^5$ honeycomb iodide $\mathrm{SmI}_3$ reported the absence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-09 Li-Hao Xia , Yi-Peng Gao , Zhao-Yang Dong , Jian-Xin Li

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) represent a novel state where spins are highly entangled but do not order even at zero temperature due to strong quantum fluctuations. Such a state is mostly studied in Heisenberg models defined on geometrically…

The exactly-solvable Kitaev model of two-dimensional honeycomb magnet leads to a quantum spin liquid (QSL) characterized by Majorana fermions, relevant for fault-tolerant topological quantum computations. In the high-field paramagnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-13 O. Tanaka , Y. Mizukami , R. Harasawa , K. Hashimoto , K. Hwang , N. Kurita , H. Tanaka , S. Fujimoto , Y. Matsuda , E. -G. Moon , T. Shibauchi

Topological quantum computation relies on control of non-Abelian anyons for inherently fault-tolerant storage and processing of quantum information. By now, blueprints for topological qubits are well developed for electrically active…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-14 Kai Klocke , Yue Liu , Gábor B. Halász , Jason Alicea

Kitaev's honeycomb-lattice spin-$1/2$ model has become a paradigmatic example for $\mathbb{Z}_2$ quantum spin liquids, both gapped and gapless. Here we study the fate of these spin-liquid phases in differently stacked bilayer versions of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-03 Urban F. P. Seifert , Julian Gritsch , Erik Wagner , Darshan G. Joshi , Wolfram Brenig , Matthias Vojta , Kai P. Schmidt

We established a large class of exactly soluble spin liquids and chiral spin liquids on three dimensional helix lattices by introducing Kitaev-type's spin coupling. In the chiral spin liquids, exact stable ground states with spontaneous…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-06-07 Tieyan Si , Yue Yu

The Kitaev model is a fascinating example of an exactly solvable model displaying a spin-liquid ground state in two dimensions. However, deviations from the original Kitaev model are expected to appear in real materials. In this Letter, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-21 Vitor Dantas , Eric C. Andrade

Motivated by growing evidence for the significance of the third-nearest-neighbor Heisenberg ($J_3$) interaction in candidate Kitaev materials, we investigate the dynamical properties of the Kitaev spin liquid (KSL) under a $J_3$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-27 Chuan Chen , Jiucai Wang

We propose a theoretical model for a gapless spin liquid phase that may have been observed in a recent experiment on $\mathrm{H_3Li Ir_2 O_6}$. Despite the insulating and non-magnetic nature of the material, the specific heat coefficient…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-29 Kevin Slagle , Wonjune Choi , Li Ern Chern , Yong Baek Kim

There have been substantial recent efforts, both experimentally and theoretically, to find a material realization of the Kitaev spin-liquid--the ground state of the exactly solvable Kitaev model on the honeycomb lattice. Candidate materials…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-12 Tessa Cookmeyer , Joel E. Moore

Recently it was realized that the zigzag magnetic order in Kitaev materials can be stabilized by small negative off-diagonal interactions called the $\Gamma'$ terms. To fully understand the effect of the $\Gamma'$ interactions, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-21 Jiucai Wang , Qirong Zhao , Xiaoqun Wang , Zheng-Xin Liu

A quantum spin liquid (QSL) arises from a highly entangled superposition of many degenerate classical ground states in a frustrated magnet, and is characterized by emergent gauge fields and deconfined fractionalized excitations (spinons).…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-24 Bin Gao , Félix Desrochers , David W. Tam , Paul Steffens , Arno Hiess , Yixi Su , Sang-Wook Cheong , Yong Baek Kim , Pengcheng Dai