Magnetic field induced spin liquids in Kitaev honeycomb model
Abstract
We investigate the ground state properties of the spin S = 1 Kitaev honeycomb model under a magnetic field based on the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) calculation. With the time-reversal symmetry breaking due to the magnetic field, a gapped Kitaev spin liquid is identified for both ferromagnetic (FM) and antiferromagnetic (AFM) Kitaev couplings. The topological nature of such a Kitaev spin liquid is manifested by a nearly quantized Wilson loop, degeneracy in the entanglement spectra, and the existence of edge modes. While the FM Kitaev spin liquid is destroyed by a weaker magnetic field $$H_*^\text{FM}$$, the AFM one demonstrates a robustness up to an order of magnitude larger critical field $$H_*^\text{AFM}$$. Moreover, an intermediate nonmagnetic phase appears only for the AFM case at larger fields, $$H_*^\text{AFM} < H < H_{**}^\text{AFM}$$, before the transition to a high-field polarized paramagnet. The stability of the Kitaev spin liquid against the Heisenberg interactions is also examined. Our findings may further inspire the investigation of recently proposed S = 1 Kitaev materials.
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- California State University, Northridge (CSUN), CA (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China (MOST)
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- 1631397
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- OSTI ID: 1830803; OSTI ID: 1834796; OSTI ID: 1864867
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- FG02-06ER46305; 2017YFA0302902
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- Physical Review Research
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- Journal Name: Physical Review Research Journal Volume: 2 Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 2643-1564
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- American Physical Society
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- United States
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- English
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- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
Citation Formats
Zhu, Zheng, Weng, Zheng-Yu, and Sheng, D. N. Magnetic field induced spin liquids in S = 1 Kitaev honeycomb model. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.022047.
Zhu, Zheng, Weng, Zheng-Yu, & Sheng, D. N. Magnetic field induced spin liquids in S = 1 Kitaev honeycomb model. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.022047
Zhu, Zheng, Weng, Zheng-Yu, and Sheng, D. N. Mon .
"Magnetic field induced spin liquids in S = 1 Kitaev honeycomb model". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.022047.
@article{osti_1631397,
title = {Magnetic field induced spin liquids in S = 1 Kitaev honeycomb model},
author = {Zhu, Zheng and Weng, Zheng-Yu and Sheng, D. N.},
abstractNote = {We investigate the ground state properties of the spin S = 1 Kitaev honeycomb model under a magnetic field based on the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) calculation. With the time-reversal symmetry breaking due to the magnetic field, a gapped Kitaev spin liquid is identified for both ferromagnetic (FM) and antiferromagnetic (AFM) Kitaev couplings. The topological nature of such a Kitaev spin liquid is manifested by a nearly quantized Wilson loop, degeneracy in the entanglement spectra, and the existence of edge modes. While the FM Kitaev spin liquid is destroyed by a weaker magnetic field $H_*^\text{FM}$, the AFM one demonstrates a robustness up to an order of magnitude larger critical field $H_*^\text{AFM}$. Moreover, an intermediate nonmagnetic phase appears only for the AFM case at larger fields, $H_*^\text{AFM} < H < H_{**}^\text{AFM}$, before the transition to a high-field polarized paramagnet. The stability of the Kitaev spin liquid against the Heisenberg interactions is also examined. Our findings may further inspire the investigation of recently proposed S = 1 Kitaev materials.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.022047},
journal = {Physical Review Research},
number = 2,
volume = 2,
place = {United States},
year = {2020},
month = {6}
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.022047
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