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"The Kitaev model with anisotropic interactions on the bonds of a honeycomb lattice is a paradigmatic model for quantum spin liquids. Despite the simplicity of the model, a rich phase diagram with gapless and gapped quantum spin liquid phases, with abelian and non-abelian excitations, are revealed as a function of a magnetic field and bond couplings. Our results of the entanglement entropy, topological entanglement entropy, and the dynamical spin excitation spectrum, are obtained using exact diagonalization and density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) methods. We provide insights into the phases from the underlying effective field theories.
In collaboration with Shi Feng, Cullen Gantenberg, Adhip Agarwala, Subhro Bhattacharjee
[1] Signatures of magnetic-field-driven quantum phase transitions in the entanglement entropy and spin dynamics of the Kitaev honeycomb model, David C. Ronquillo, Adu Vengal, Nandini Trivedi, Phys. Rev. B 99, 140413 (2019)
[2] Magnetic field induced intermediate quantum spin-liquid with a spinon Fermi surface, Niravkumar D. Patel and Nandini Trivedi, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, 12199 (2019).
[3] Two-Magnon Bound States in the Kitaev Model in a [111]-Field, Subhasree Pradhan, Niravkumar D. Patel, Nandini Trivedi, Phys. Rev. B 101, 180401 (2020)
[4] Symmetry Analysis of Tensors in the Honeycomb Lattice of Edge-Sharing Octahedra, Franz G. Utermohlen, Nandini Trivedi, Phys. Rev. B 103, 155124 (2021) "
