Nonlocal spin correlation as a signature of Ising anyons trapped in vacancies of the Kitaev spin liquid

MO Takahashi, MG Yamada, M Udagawa… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
In the Kitaev chiral spin liquid, Ising anyons are realized as Z 2 fluxes binding Majorana zero
modes, which, however, are thermal excitations with finite decay rates. On the other hand, a …

Gate-controlled anyon generation and detection in Kitaev spin liquids

GB Halász - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Reliable manipulation of non-Abelian Ising anyons supported by Kitaev spin liquids may
enable intrinsically fault-tolerant quantum computation. Here, we introduce a standalone …

Majorana quasiparticles emergent in Kitaev spin liquid

J Nasu - Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
This paper reviews the nature of two quasiparticles, the Majorana fermion and vison,
emergent in the Kitaev model, mainly from the theoretical point of view. We demonstrate how …

Dynamical anyon generation in Kitaev honeycomb non-Abelian spin liquids

Y Liu, K Slagle, KS Burch, J Alicea - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Relativistic Mott insulators known as “Kitaev materials” potentially realize spin liquids
hosting non-Abelian anyons. Motivated by fault-tolerant quantum-computing applications in …

Thermal probes of phonon-coupled Kitaev spin liquids: From accurate extraction of quantized edge transport to anyon interferometry

K Klocke, JE Moore, J Alicea, GB Halász - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
Recent theoretical studies inspired by experiments on the Kitaev magnet α-RuCl 3 highlight
the nontrivial impact of phonons on the thermal Hall conductivity of chiral topological …

Thermal interferometry of anyons

Z Wei, N Batra, VF Mitrović, DE Feldman - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Anyonic interferometry probes the braiding phases of excitations in topologically ordered
matter. This technique is well established for charged quasiparticles in the fractional …

Robustness of quantum Hall interferometry

DE Feldman, BI Halperin - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Fabry-Pérot interferometry has emerged as a tool to probe anyon statistics in the quantum
Hall effect. The interference phase is interpreted as a combination of a quantized statistical …

Real-time control of non-Abelian anyons in Kitaev spin liquid under energy dissipation

C Harada, A Ono, J Nasu - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Quantum spin liquids realized in the Kitaev model offer a platform for fractionalization of spin
into two quasiparticles: itinerant Majoranas and localized visons. Introducing a uniform weak …

Field-driven spatiotemporal manipulation of Majorana zero modes in a Kitaev spin liquid

C Harada, A Ono, J Nasu - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The Kitaev quantum spin liquid possesses two fractional quasiparticles, itinerant Majorana
fermions and localized visons. It provides a promising platform for realizing a Majorana zero …

Scattering phenomena for spin transport in a Kitaev spin liquid

J Nasu, Y Murakami, A Koga - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
The Kitaev model exhibits a canonical quantum spin liquid as a ground state and hosts two
fractional quasiparticles, ie, itinerant Majorana fermion and localized flux excitation. The …