Concept and realization of Kitaev quantum spin liquids

H Takagi, T Takayama, G Jackeli, G Khaliullin… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
The Kitaev model is an exactly solvable S= 1/2 spin model on a 2D honeycomb lattice, in
which the spins fractionalize into Majorana fermions and form a topological quantum spin …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Excitations in the field-induced quantum spin liquid state of α-RuCl3

A Banerjee, P Lampen-Kelley, J Knolle, C Balz… - npj Quantum …, 2018 - nature.com
The celebrated Kitaev quantum spin liquid (QSL) is the paradigmatic example of a
topological magnet with emergent excitations in the form of Majorana Fermions and gauge …

Axion quasiparticles for axion dark matter detection

J Schütte-Engel, DJE Marsh, AJ Millar… - … of Cosmology and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
It has been suggested that certain antiferromagnetic topological insulators contain axion
quasiparticles (AQs), and that such materials could be used to detect axion dark matter …

A magnetic continuum in the cobalt-based honeycomb magnet BaCo2(AsO4)2

X Zhang, Y Xu, T Halloran, R Zhong, C Broholm… - Nature Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are topologically ordered states of matter that host
fractionalized excitations. A particular route towards a QSL is via strongly bond-dependent …

Magnon-phonon hybridization in 2D antiferromagnet MnPSe3

TT Mai, KF Garrity, A McCreary, J Argo, JR Simpson… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Magnetic excitations in van der Waals (vdW) materials, especially in the two-dimensional
(2D) limit, are an exciting research topic from both the fundamental and applied …

Magnetic Excitations and Continuum of a Possibly Field-Induced Quantum Spin Liquid in

Z Wang, S Reschke, D Hüvonen, SH Do, KY Choi… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
We report on terahertz spectroscopy of quantum spin dynamics in α-RuCl 3, a system
proximate to the Kitaev honeycomb model, as a function of temperature and magnetic field …

Proposal to detect dark matter using axionic topological antiferromagnets

DJE Marsh, KC Fong, EW Lentz, L Šmejkal, MN Ali - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
Antiferromagnetically doped topological insulators (ATI) are among the candidates to host
dynamical axion fields and axion polaritons, weakly interacting quasiparticles that are …