Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Theory of the field-revealed Kitaev spin liquid

  • Jacob S. Gordon,
  • Andrei Catuneanu,
  • Erik S. Sørensen,
  • Hae-Young Kee

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10405-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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α-RuCl3 is a candidate material for studying Kitaev physics but a microscopic theory consistent with experiments has not yet been established. Here the authors present a theory with an intermediate-field spin liquid phase that can explain recent results indicating anyonic behaviour.