Models and materials for generalized Kitaev magnetism

SM Winter, AA Tsirlin, M Daghofer… - Journal of Physics …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The exactly solvable Kitaev model on the honeycomb lattice has recently received
enormous attention linked to the hope of achieving novel spin-liquid states with …

Hunting Majorana fermions in Kitaev magnets

Y Motome, J Nasu - Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 2020 - journals.jps.jp
A Majorana fermion is a fermionic particle that is its own antiparticle. Since the theoretical
discovery by Ettore Majorana in 1937, the exotic particle has long been searched in particle …

Majorana quantization and half-integer thermal quantum Hall effect in a Kitaev spin liquid

Y Kasahara, T Ohnishi, Y Mizukami, O Tanaka, S Ma… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The quantum Hall effect in two-dimensional electron gases involves the flow of topologically
protected dissipationless charge currents along the edges of a sample. Integer or fractional …

Excitations in the field-induced quantum spin liquid state of α-RuCl3

A Banerjee, P Lampen-Kelley, J Knolle, C Balz… - npj Quantum …, 2018 - nature.com
The celebrated Kitaev quantum spin liquid (QSL) is the paradigmatic example of a
topological magnet with emergent excitations in the form of Majorana Fermions and gauge …

[HTML][HTML] Kitaev materials

S Trebst, C Hickey - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
In transition-metal compounds with partially filled 4 d and 5 d shells spin–orbit
entanglement, electronic correlations, and crystal-field effects conspire to give rise to a …

Field-induced quantum spin disordered state in spin-1/2 honeycomb magnet Na2Co2TeO6

G Lin, J Jeong, C Kim, Y Wang, Q Huang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Spin-orbit coupled honeycomb magnets with the Kitaev interaction have received a lot of
attention due to their potential of hosting exotic quantum states including quantum spin …

Magnetic ground state of the Kitaev spin liquid candidate

W Yao, Y Zhao, Y Qiu, C Balz, JR Stewart, JW Lynn… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
As a candidate Kitaev material, Na 2 Co 2 TeO 6 exhibits intriguing magnetism on a
honeycomb lattice that is believed to be C 3 symmetric. Here we report a neutron diffraction …

Magnetic Excitations and Continuum of a Possibly Field-Induced Quantum Spin Liquid in

Z Wang, S Reschke, D Hüvonen, SH Do, KY Choi… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
We report on terahertz spectroscopy of quantum spin dynamics in α-RuCl 3, a system
proximate to the Kitaev honeycomb model, as a function of temperature and magnetic field …

Magnetization processes of zigzag states on the honeycomb lattice: Identifying spin models for and

L Janssen, EC Andrade, M Vojta - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
We study the field-induced magnetization processes of extended Heisenberg-Kitaev models
on the honeycomb lattice, taking into account off-diagonal and longer-range exchange …

Microscopic mechanism for a higher-spin Kitaev model

PP Stavropoulos, D Pereira, HY Kee - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
The spin S= 1 2 Kitaev honeycomb model has attracted significant attention since emerging
candidate materials have provided a playground to test non-Abelian anyons. The Kitaev …