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 …

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 …

Benchmarking variational quantum eigensolvers for the square-octagon-lattice Kitaev model

ACY Li, MS Alam, T Iadecola, A Jahin, J Job… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Quantum spin systems may offer the first opportunities for beyond-classical quantum
computations of scientific interest. While general quantum simulation algorithms likely …

Anyon dynamics in field-driven phases of the anisotropic Kitaev model

S Feng, A Agarwala, S Bhattacharjee, N Trivedi - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The Kitaev model on a honeycomb lattice with bond-dependent Ising interactions offers an
exactly solvable model of a quantum spin liquid (QSL) with fractionalized excitations …

Revealing the phase diagram of Kitaev materials by machine learning: Cooperation and competition between spin liquids

K Liu, N Sadoune, N Rao, J Greitemann, L Pollet - Physical Review Research, 2021 - APS
Kitaev materials are promising materials for hosting quantum spin liquids and investigating
the interplay of topological and symmetry-breaking phases. We use an unsupervised and …

Emergent glassiness in the disorder-free Kitaev model: Density matrix renormalization group study on a one-dimensional ladder setting

KB Yogendra, T Das, G Baskaran - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The complete phase diagram of the Kitaev model with a magnetic field remains elusive, as
do the experimental results in the candidate material α-RuCl 3. Here, we study the Kitaev …

Field tuning Kitaev systems for spin fractionalization and topological order

J Das, S Kundu, A Kumar… - Journal of Physics …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The honeycomb Kitaev model describes a Z 2 spin liquid with topological order and
fractionalized excitations consisting of gapped π-fluxes and free Majorana fermions …

Kitaev Quantum Spin Liquids

Y Matsuda, T Shibauchi, HY Kee - arxiv preprint arxiv:2501.05608, 2025 - arxiv.org
Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) represent exotic states of matter where quantum spins interact
strongly yet evade long-range magnetic order down to absolute zero. Characterized by non …

Generic field-driven phenomena in Kitaev spin liquids: Canted magnetism and proximate spin liquid physics

C Hickey, M Gohlke, C Berke, S Trebst - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Topological spin liquids in two spatial dimensions are stable phases in the presence of a
small magnetic field, but may give way to field-induced phenomena at intermediate field …

Dynamics of fractionalized mean-field theories: consequences for Kitaev materials

T Cookmeyer, JE Moore - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
There have been substantial recent efforts, both experimentally and theoretically, to find a
material realization of the Kitaev spin liquid—the ground state of the exactly solvable Kitaev …