Beyond Kitaev physics in strong spin-orbit coupled magnets

I Rousochatzakis, NB Perkins, Q Luo… - Reports on Progress in …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the recent advances and current challenges in the field of strong spin-orbit
coupled Kitaev materials, with a particular emphasis on the physics beyond the exactly …

Experimental signatures of quantum and topological states in frustrated magnetism

J Khatua, B Sana, A Zorko, M Gomilšek, K Sethupathi… - Physics Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
Frustration in magnetic materials arising from competing exchange interactions can prevent
the system from adopting long-range magnetic order and can instead lead to a diverse …

[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 …

Vacancy-induced low-energy density of states in the Kitaev spin liquid

WH Kao, J Knolle, GB Halász, R Moessner, NB Perkins - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
The Kitaev honeycomb model has attracted significant attention due to its exactly solvable
spin-liquid ground state with fractionalized Majorana excitations and its possible …

[HTML][HTML] α-RuCl3 and other Kitaev materials

S Kim, B Yuan, YJ Kim - APL Materials, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Quantum spin liquids have been drawing much attention in recent years as a platform to
develop future quantum technologies, such as topological quantum computing. In particular …

Towards Kitaev spin liquid in transition metal compounds

H Liu - International Journal of Modern Physics B, 2021 - World Scientific
This paper reviews the current progress on searching the Kitaev spin liquid state in 3 d
electron systems. Honeycomb cobaltates were recently proposed as promising candidates …

Quantum materials with strong spin–orbit coupling: challenges and opportunities for materials chemists

AJ Browne, A Krajewska, AS Gibbs - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Spin–orbit coupling is a quantum effect that can give rise to exotic electronic and magnetic
states in the compounds of the 4d and 5d transition metals. Exploratory synthesis, chemical …

Variational study of the Kitaev-Heisenberg-Gamma model

SS Zhang, GB Halász, W Zhu, CD Batista - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We compute the low-energy excitation spectrum and the dynamical spin structure factor of
the Kitaev-Heisenberg-Gamma model through a variational approach based on the exact …

Electronic and magnetic phase diagrams of the Kitaev quantum spin liquid candidate

S Zhang, S Lee, AJ Woods, WK Peria, SM Thomas… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The 3 d 7 Co 2+-based insulating magnet Na 2 Co 2 TeO 6 has recently been reported to
have strong Kitaev interactions on a honeycomb lattice and is thus being considered as a …

Accessing new magnetic regimes by tuning the ligand spin-orbit coupling in van der Waals magnets

TA Tartaglia, JN Tang, JL Lado, F Bahrami… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Van der Waals (VdW) materials have opened new directions in the study of low dimensional
magnetism. A largely unexplored arena is the intrinsic tuning of VdW magnets toward new …