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The characterization of quantum spin liquid phases in Kitaev materials has been a subject of intensive studies over the recent years, both theoretically and experimentally. Most theoretical studies have focused on an isotropically…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-01 Matthias Gohlke , Jose Carlos Pelayo , Takafumi Suzuki

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

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

We study the ground-state phase diagram of the spin-$1/2$ Kitaev-Heisenberg model on the bilayer honeycomb lattice with large-scale tensor network calculations based on the infinite projected entangled pair state technique as well as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-24 Elahe Samimi , Antonia Duft , Patrick Adelhardt , Kai Phillip Schmidt , Saeed S. Jahromi

The S=3/2 Kitaev honeycomb model (KHM) is a quantum spin liquid (QSL) state coupled to a static Z$_2$ gauge field. Employing an SO(6) Majorana representation of spin 3/2's, we find an exact representation of the conserved plaquette fluxes…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-07 Hui-Ke Jin , W. M. H. Natori , F. Pollmann , J. Knolle

Clifford circuits Augmented Matrix Product States (CAMPS) was recently proposed to leverage the advantages of both Clifford circuits and Matrix Product States (MPS). Clifford circuits can support large entanglement and can be efficiently…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-03 Jiale Huang , Xiangjian Qian , Mingpu Qin

Kitaev magnets have emerged as pivotal systems for investigating frustrated magnetism, providing a unique platform to explore quantum phases governed by the interplay between bond-dependent anisotropy and external magnetic fields. However,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-13 Shuai Liu , Hao Wu , Jinbin Li , Xiaoqun Wang , Qiang Luo

We study quantum disordered ground states of the two dimensional Heisenberg-Kitaev model on the triangular lattice using a Schwinger boson approach. Our aim is to identify and characterize potential gapped quantum spin liquid phases that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-25 Pavel Kos , Matthias Punk

We develop a gauge-invariant renormalized mean-field theory (RMFT) to reliably find the quantum spin liquid (QSL) states and their field response for realistic Kitaev materials under strong magnetic fields and described by the generalized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-06 Po-Hao Chou , Chung-Yu Mou , Chung-Hou Chung , Sungkit Yip

Determining the quantum-classical boundary between quantum circuits which can be efficiently simulated classically and those which cannot remains a fundamental question. One approach to classical simulation is to represent the output of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Zejun Liu , Bryan K. Clark

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) represent highly entangled states of matter in which frustration-induced quantum fluctuations suppress any symmetry-breaking phase transition down to absolute zero, giving rise to fractionalized excitations and…

In this computational study, we explore a viable route to access the Kitaev-Quantum Spin Liquid (QSL) state in recently synthesized monolayer of a so-called spin-orbit assisted Mott insulator OsCl$_3$. In addition to other magnetic ground…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-14 Qiangqiang Gu , Shishir Kumar Pandey , Yihao Lin

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

Highly frustrated spin systems represent a central and challenging problem in condensed mater physics. To this problem, we introduce an algorithm based on mixed projected entangled pair states (m-PEPS), which is a novel type of tensor…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-03 Huan He , Zhen Wang , Chuanfeng Li , YongJian Han , Guangcan Guo

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

The Kitaev model exhibits a Quantum Spin Liquid hosting emergent fractionalized excitations. We study the Kitaev model on the honeycomb lattice coupled to a magnetic field along the [111] axis. Utilizing large scale matrix product based…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-06 Matthias Gohlke , Roderich Moessner , Frank Pollmann

We study an extended Kitaev-Heisenberg model including additional anisotropic couplings by using two-dimensional density-matrix renormalization group method. Calculating the gound-state energy, entanglement entropy, and spin-spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-02-20 Kazuya Shinjo , Shigetoshi Sota , Takami Tohyama

Quantum circuits have been shown to be a fertile ground for realizing long-range entangled phases of matter. While various quantum double models with non-chiral topological order have been theoretically investigated and experimentally…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-17 Zi-Yang Zhang , Donghoon Kim , Ji-Yao Chen

Quantum circuit dynamics with local projective measurements can realize a rich spectrum of entangled states of quantum matter. Motivated by the physics of the Kitaev quantum spin liquid [1], we study quantum circuit dynamics in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-08 Ali Lavasani , Zhu-Xi Luo , Sagar Vijay

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