Ab initio guided minimal model for the “Kitaev” material (: Importance of direct hopping, third-neighbor exchange, and quantum fluctuations

PA Maksimov, AV Ushakov, ZV Pchelkina, Y Li… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
By considering two ab initio-based complementary approaches, we analyze the electronic
structure and extract effective spin models of BaCo 2 (AsO 4) 2, a honeycomb material which …

Triple-q Order in from Proximity to Hidden-SU(2)-Symmetric Point

WGF Krüger, W Chen, X Jin, Y Li, L Janssen - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
In extended Heisenberg-Kitaev-Gamma-type spin models, hidden-SU (2)-symmetric points
are isolated points in parameter space that can be mapped to pure Heisenberg models via …

Quantum liquids of the Kitaev honeycomb and related Kugel-Khomskii models

WMH Natori, HK Jin, J Knolle - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The S= 3 2 Kitaev honeycomb model (KHM) is unique among the spin-S Kitaev models due
to a massive ground-state quasidegeneracy that hampered previous numerical and …

Disorder, low-energy excitations, and topology in the Kitaev spin liquid

V Dantas, EC Andrade - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
The Kitaev model is a fascinating example of an exactly solvable model displaying a spin-
liquid ground state in two dimensions. However, deviations from the original Kitaev model …

Determining Kitaev interaction in spin- honeycomb Mott insulators

J Cen, HY Kee - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The Kitaev interaction in a honeycomb lattice with higher-spin S has been one of the central
attractions, as it may offer quantum spin liquids. A microscopic theory showed that when the …

Effect of ring-exchange interactions in the extended Kitaev honeycomb model

J Wang, ZX Liu - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Motivated by the possible triple-Q classical order in the Kitaev candidate material Na 2 Co 2
TeO 6, we investigate microscopic models that may stabilize the triple-Q order by studying …

Easy-plane anisotropic-exchange magnets on a honeycomb lattice: Quantum effects and dealing with them

PA Maksimov, AL Chernyshev - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We provide analytical and numerical insights into the phase diagram and other properties of
the extended Kitaev-Heisenberg model on the honeycomb lattice in the easy-plane limit, in …

Ground-state phase diagram of spin- Kitaev-Heisenberg models

K Fukui, Y Kato, J Nasu, Y Motome - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
The Kitaev model, whose ground state is a quantum spin liquid (QSL), was originally
conceived for spin S= 1/2 moments on a honeycomb lattice. In recent years, the model has …

Magnon interactions in the quantum paramagnetic phase of

CA Gallegos, AL Chernyshev - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
In this work, we study effects of magnon interactions in the excitation spectrum of CoNb 2 O
6 in the quantum paramagnetic phase in transverse field, where the 1/S spin-wave theory …

Majorana-fermion mean field theories of Kitaev quantum spin liquids

SG Saheli, J Lin, H Hu, F Krüger - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We determine the phase diagrams of anisotropic Kitaev-Heisenberg models on the
honeycomb lattice using parton mean-field theories based on different Majorana fermion …