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 …

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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 …

Giant Magnetic In-Plane Anisotropy and Competing Instabilities in

X Li, Y Gu, Y Chen, VO Garlea, K Iida, K Kamazawa… - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
We report magnetometry data obtained on twin-free single crystals of Na 3 Co 2 SbO 6,
which is considered a candidate material for realizing the Kitaev honeycomb model for …

Twice hidden string order and competing phases in the spin-1/2 Kitaev–Gamma ladder

ES Sørensen, HY Kee - npj Quantum Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Finding the Kitaev spin liquid in candidate materials involves understanding the entire
phase diagram, including other allowed interactions. One of these interactions, called the …

Anisotropic magnetic interactions in a candidate Kitaev spin liquid close to a metal-insulator transition

Z Ma, D Ni, DAS Kaib, K MacFarquharson… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
In the Kitaev honeycomb model, spins coupled by strongly-frustrated anisotropic interactions
do not order at low temperature but instead form a quantum spin liquid with spin …

Chiral spin state and nematic ferromagnet in the spin-1 Kitaev- model

Q Luo, J Zhao, J Li, X Wang - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
The higher-spin Kitaev magnets, in which the Kitaev interaction and off-diagonal exchange
couplings are overwhelmingly large, have emerged as a fertile avenue to explore exotic …

Floquet engineering of Kitaev quantum magnets

U Kumar, S Banerjee, SZ Lin - Communications Physics, 2022 - nature.com
In recent years, there has been an intense search for materials realizing the Kitaev quantum
spin liquid model. A number of edge-shared compounds with strong spin-orbit coupling …

Unusual excitations and double-peak specific heat in a bond-alternating spin-1 chain

Q Luo, S Hu, HY Kee - Physical Review Research, 2021 - APS
One-dimensional gapped phases that avoid any symmetry breaking have drawn enduring
attention. In this paper, we study such phases in a bond-alternating spin-1 K-Γ chain built of …

Unveiling the phase diagram of a bond-alternating spin- chain

Q Luo, J Zhao, X Wang, HY Kee - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
The key to unraveling intriguing phenomena observed in various Kitaev materials lies in
understanding the interplay of Kitaev (K) interaction and a symmetric off-diagonal Γ …

Field-induced phase transitions and quantum criticality in the honeycomb antiferromagnet

Z Hu, Y Chen, Y Cui, S Li, C Li, X Xu, Y Chen, X Li… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We performed Na 23 NMR measurements on a single-domain crystal of the Kitaev material
Na 3 Co 2 SbO 6 with magnetic field applied along the crystalline a axis. A positive Curie …