Experimental perspective on three-dimensional topological semimetals

BQ Lv, T Qian, H Ding - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2021 - APS
Topological semimetals (TSMs) are characterized by bulk band crossings in their electronic
structures, which are expected to give rise to gapless electronic excitations and topological …

Probing and controlling magnetic states in 2D layered magnetic materials

KF Mak, J Shan, DC Ralph - Nature Reviews Physics, 2019 - nature.com
The discovery of atomic monolayer magnetic materials has triggered significant interest in
the magnetism/spintronics and 2D van der Waals materials communities. Here we review …

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 …

Proximate Kitaev quantum spin liquid behaviour in a honeycomb magnet

A Banerjee, CA Bridges, JQ Yan, AA Aczel, L Li… - Nature materials, 2016 - nature.com
Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are topological states of matter exhibiting remarkable
properties such as the capacity to protect quantum information from decoherence. Whereas …

Dirac line nodes in inversion-symmetric crystals

Y Kim, BJ Wieder, CL Kane, AM Rappe - Physical review letters, 2015 - APS
We propose and characterize a new Z 2 class of topological semimetals with a vanishing
spin-orbit interaction. The proposed topological semimetals are characterized by the …

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 …

Spin-orbit physics giving rise to novel phases in correlated systems: Iridates and related materials

JG Rau, EKH Lee, HY Kee - Annual Review of Condensed …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Recently, the effects of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in correlated materials have become one
of the most actively studied subjects in condensed matter physics, as correlations and SOC …

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 …

Half-integer quantized anomalous thermal Hall effect in the Kitaev material candidate α-RuCl3

T Yokoi, S Ma, Y Kasahara, S Kasahara, T Shibauchi… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Half-integer thermal quantum Hall conductance has recently been reported for the two-
dimensional honeycomb material α-RuCl3. We found that the half-integer thermal Hall …

Monoclinic crystal structure of and the zigzag antiferromagnetic ground state

RD Johnson, SC Williams, AA Haghighirad, J Singleton… - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
The layered honeycomb magnet α-RuCl 3 has been proposed as a candidate to realize a
Kitaev spin model with strongly frustrated, bond-dependent, anisotropic interactions …