2020•Physical Review ResearchOpen access

Field-driven gapless spin liquid in the spin-1 Kitaev honeycomb model

Ciarán Hickey, Christoph Berke, P. Peter Stavropoulos, Hae‐Young Kee, Simon Trebst

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The authors study the spin-1 generalization of the Kitaev honeycomb model in the presence of an external magnetic field. In the case of antiferromagnetic interactions, they find numerical evidence for the appearance of a gapless U(1) quantum spin liquid at intermediate field strengths

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Key concepts: Gapless playback, Quantum spin liquid, Antiferromagnetism, Condensed matter physics, Honeycomb, Spin (aerodynamics), Physics, Field (mathematics)