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Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics

Volume 9, 2018

Physics of the Kitaev Model: Fractionalization, Dynamic Correlations, and Material Connections

Abstract

Quantum spin liquids have fascinated condensed matter physicists for decades because of their unusual properties such as spin fractionalization and long-range entanglement. Unlike conventional symmetry breaking, the topological order underlying quantum spin liquids is hard to detect experimentally. Even theoretical models are scarce for which the ground state is established to be a quantum spin liquid. The Kitaev honeycomb model and its generalizations to other tricoordinated lattices are chief counterexamples—they are exactly solvable, harbor a variety of quantum spin liquid phases, and are also relevant for certain transition metal compounds including the polymorphs of (Na,Li)IrO iridates and RuCl. In this review, we give an overview of the rich physics of the Kitaev model, including two-dimensional and three-dimensional fractionalization as well as dynamic correlations and behavior at finite temperatures. We discuss the different materials and argue how the Kitaev model physics can be relevant even though most materials show magnetic ordering at low temperatures.

Keyword(s): correlated electrons, iridates, quantum magnetism, quantum spin liquid, ruthenates, spin-orbit coupling, topological
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Physics of the Kitaev Model: Fractionalization, Dynamic Correlations, and Material Connections
Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics 9, 17 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-033117-053934
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