A magnetic continuum in the cobalt-based honeycomb magnet BaCo2(AsO4)2

X Zhang, Y Xu, T Halloran, R Zhong, C Broholm… - Nature Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are topologically ordered states of matter that host
fractionalized excitations. A particular route towards a QSL is via strongly bond-dependent …

Magnetic anisotropy reversal driven by structural symmetry-breaking in monolayer α-RuCl3

B Yang, YM Goh, SH Sung, G Ye, S Biswas… - Nature Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Layered α-RuCl3 is a promising material to potentially realize the long-sought Kitaev
quantum spin liquid with fractionalized excitations. While evidence of this state has been …

Identification of magnetic interactions and high-field quantum spin liquid in α-RuCl3

H Li, HK Zhang, J Wang, HQ Wu, Y Gao, DW Qu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The frustrated magnet α-RuCl3 constitutes a fascinating quantum material platform that
harbors the intriguing Kitaev physics. However, a consensus on its intricate spin interactions …

Suppression of antiferromagnetic order by strain-enhanced frustration in honeycomb cobaltate

GH Kim, M Park, S Samanta, U Choi, B Kang, U Seo… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Layered honeycomb cobaltates are predicted as promising for realizing the Kitaev quantum
spin liquid, a many-body quantum entangled ground state characterized by fractional …

Theory of the Kitaev model in a [111] magnetic field

SS Zhang, GB Halász, CD Batista - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Recent numerical studies indicate that the antiferromagnetic Kitaev honeycomb lattice
model undergoes a magnetic-field-induced quantum phase transition into a new spin-liquid …

Magnetic field-induced intermediate quantum spin liquid with a spinon Fermi surface

ND Patel, N Trivedi - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019 - pnas.org
The Kitaev model with an applied magnetic field in the H∥[111] direction shows two
transitions: from a nonabelian gapped quantum spin liquid (QSL) to a gapless QSL at H c 1≃ …

Magnetic field induced competing phases in spin-orbital entangled Kitaev magnets

LE Chern, R Kaneko, HY Lee, YB Kim - Physical Review Research, 2020 - APS
There has been a great interest in magnetic field induced quantum spin liquids in Kitaev
magnets after the discovery of neutron scattering continuum and half-quantized thermal Hall …

Emergence of Competing Orders and Possible Quantum Spin Liquid in Fermions

XJ Yu, SH Shi, L Xu, ZX Li - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
In the past few decades, tremendous efforts have been made toward understanding the
exotic physics emerging from competition between various ordering tendencies in strongly …

Emergence of nematic paramagnet via quantum order-by-disorder and pseudo-Goldstone modes in Kitaev magnets

M Gohlke, LE Chern, HY Kee, YB Kim - Physical Review Research, 2020 - APS
The appearance of nontrivial phases in Kitaev materials exposed to an external magnetic
field has recently been a subject of intensive studies. Here, we elucidate the relation …

Spin-1 Kitaev-Heisenberg model on a honeycomb lattice

XY Dong, DN Sheng - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We study the Kitaev-Heisenberg model with spin-1 local degree of freedom on a honeycomb
lattice numerically by the infinite density matrix renormalization group method on a cylinder …