Quantum spin liquids: a review

L Savary, L Balents - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Quantum spin liquids may be considered'quantum disordered'ground states of spin systems,
in which zero-point fluctuations are so strong that they prevent conventional magnetic long …

A field guide to spin liquids

J Knolle, R Moessner - Annual Review of Condensed Matter …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Spin liquids are collective phases of quantum matter that have eluded discovery in
correlated magnetic materials for over half a century. Theoretical models of these enigmatic …

Neutron scattering in the proximate quantum spin liquid α-RuCl3

A Banerjee, J Yan, J Knolle, CA Bridges, MB Stone… - Science, 2017 - science.org
The Kitaev quantum spin liquid (KQSL) is an exotic emergent state of matter exhibiting
Majorana fermion and gauge flux excitations. The magnetic insulator α-RuCl3 is thought to …

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 …

Physics of the Kitaev model: Fractionalization, dynamic correlations, and material connections

M Hermanns, I Kimchi, J Knolle - Annual Review of Condensed …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Quantum spin liquids have fascinated condensed matter physicists for decades because of
their unusual properties such as spin fractionalization and long-range entanglement. Unlike …

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 …

Accelerated Monte Carlo simulations with restricted Boltzmann machines

L Huang, L Wang - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
Despite their exceptional flexibility and popularity, Monte Carlo methods often suffer from
slow mixing times for challenging statistical physics problems. We present a general strategy …

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 …

Challenges in design of Kitaev materials: Magnetic interactions from competing energy scales

SM Winter, Y Li, HO Jeschke, R Valentí - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
In this study, we reanalyze the magnetic interactions in the Kitaev spin-liquid candidate
materials Na 2 IrO 3, α-RuCl 3, and α-Li 2 IrO 3 using nonperturbative exact diagonalization …

Engineering and probing non-abelian chiral spin liquids using periodically driven ultracold atoms

BY Sun, N Goldman, M Aidelsburger, M Bukov - PRX Quantum, 2023 - APS
We propose a scheme to implement Kitaev's honeycomb model with cold atoms, based on a
periodic (Floquet) drive, in view of realizing and probing non-Abelian chiral spin liquids …