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Motivated by the recent surge of field-driven phenomena discussed for Kitaev materials, in particular the experimental observation of a finite thermal Hall effect and theoretical proposals for the emergence of additional spin liquid phases…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-28 Yong Hao Gao , Ciarán Hickey , Tao Xiang , Simon Trebst , Gang Chen

The Kitaev model with an applied magnetic field in the $H||[111]$ direction shows two transitions: from a non-abelian gapped quantum spin liquid (QSL) to a gapless QSL at $H_{c1} \simeq 0.2K$ and a second transition at a higher field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-11 Niravkumar D. Patel , Nandini Trivedi

This review summarizes the results of a series of recent papers, where a microscopic model underlying the physics of elementary particles has been proposed. The 'tetron model' relies on the existence of an internal isospin space, in which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-08 Bodo Lampe

In this review, We discussed the theoretical foundation and experimental discovery of different topological electronic states of material in condensed matter. At first, we briefly reviewed the conventional electronic states, which have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-30 Arnab Kumar Pariari

We investigate the non-Abelian topological chiral spin liquid phase in the two-dimensional (2D) Kitaev honeycomb model subject to a magnetic field. By combining density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) and exact diagonalization (ED) we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-27 Zheng Zhu , Itamar Kimchi , D. N. Sheng , Liang Fu

Recent proposals for spin-1 Kitaev materials, such as honeycomb Ni oxides with heavy elements of Bi and Sb, have shown that these compounds naturally give rise to antiferromagnetic (AFM) Kitaev couplings. Conceptual interest in such AFM…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-22 Ciarán Hickey , Christoph Berke , Panagiotis Peter Stavropoulos , Hae-Young Kee , Simon Trebst

This paper presents a first-principle and global perspective of electromagnetic chirality. It follows for this purpose a bottom-up construction, from the description of chiral particles or metaparticles (microscopic scale), through the…

Optics · Physics 2019-04-05 Christophe Caloz , Ari Sihvola

We use the constrained random phase approximation (cRPA) to derive from first principles the Ru-$t_{2g}$ Wannier function based model for the Kitaev spin-liquid candidate material $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$. We find the non-local Coulomb repulsion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-09 Casey Eichstaedt , Yi Zhang , Pontus Laurell , Satoshi Okamoto , Adolfo G. Eguiluz , Tom Berlijn

We study the 3D Kitaev and Kitaev-Heisenberg models respectively on the hyperhoneycomb and hyperoctagon lattices, both at zero and finite-temperature, in the thermodynamic limit. Our analysis relies on advanced tensor network (TN)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-08 Saeed S. Jahromi , Hadi Yarloo , Roman Orus

A number of recent works have argued that quantum complexity, a well-known concept in computer science that has re-emerged recently in the context of the physics of black holes, may be used as an efficient probe of novel phenomena such as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-08 Pawel Caputa , Nitin Gupta , S. Shajidul Haque , Sinong Liu , Jeff Murugan , Hendrik J. R. Van Zyl

We study a $\mathbb{Z}_3$ Kitaev model on the honeycomb lattice with nearest neighbor interactions. Based on matrix product state simulations and symmetry considerations, we find evidence that, with ferromagnetic isotropic couplings, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-04-29 Li-Mei Chen , Tyler D. Ellison , Meng Cheng , Peng Ye , Ji-Yao Chen

This thesis, explores the quantum entanglement and evolution through both a geometric and dynamical perspective. The first part focuses on classical phase space and its central role in Hamiltonian mechanics, emphasizing the importance of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 Jamal Elfakir

We present thermodynamic phase diagrams showing magnetic analog of "three states of matter," namely, spin liquid, paramagnetic, and magnetically ordered phases, obtained by unbiased quantum Monte Carlo simulations. Our simulations are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-30 Yoshitomo Kamiya , Yasuyuki Kato , Joji Nasu , Yukitoshi Motome

A prominent feature of quantum spin liquids is fractionalization of the spin degree of freedom. Fractionalized excitations have their own dynamics in different energy scales, and hence, affect finite-temperature ($T$) properties in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-04 Junki Yoshitake , Joji Nasu , Yasuyuki Kato , Yukitoshi Motome

Traditional magnetic sub-Kelvin cooling relies on the nearly free local moments in hydrate paramagnetic salts, whose utility is hampered by the dilute magnetic ions and low thermal conductivity. Here we propose to use instead fractional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-06 Han Li , Enze Lv , Ning Xi , Yuan Gao , Yang Qi , Wei Li , Gang Su

Aligning with the everlasting search for quantum spin liquids (QSLs), identifying the QSL in Kitaev magnets has garnered great research interest during the past decade and remains nevertheless an enormous challenge. One of the major…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-03 Qiang Luo , Jize Zhao , Xiaoqun Wang

The extraordinary properties of the Kitaev model have motivated an intense search for new physics in materials that combine geometrical and bond frustration. In this work, we employ inelastic neutron scattering, spin wave theory, and exact…

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

Highly entangled excitations such as Majorana fermions of Kitaev quantum spin liquids have been proposed to be utilized for future quantum science and technology, and a deeper understanding of such excitations has been strongly desired.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-03 Pureum Noh , Kyusung Hwang , Eun-Gook Moon

We analyze the Kitaev model on the triangle-honeycomb lattice whose ground state has recently been shown to be a chiral spin liquid. We consider two perturbative expansions: the isolated-dimer limit containing Abelian anyons and the…

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