Magnetic field induced phenomena in Kitaev spin liquids.

Authors

Shi Feng, Nandini Trivedi

Published in

Reports on progress in physics. Physical Society (Great Britain). Volume 89. Issue 10. Oct 07, 2026. Epub Oct 07, 2026.

Abstract

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) host a variety of fractionalized particles. In Kitaev's paradigmatic honeycomb model a spin-fractionalizes intoflux due to emergentgauge field and matter Majorana fermions. Although these excitations have well-defined dynamics in the integrable limit, their direct experimental identification is notoriously challenging: realistic materials inevitably host additional symmetry-allowed interactions that break integrability and hybridize gauge and matter sectors, while magnetic fields, which are often required to suppress competing order and stabilize a putative QSL regime, further entangle the responses of different fractionalized quasiparticles and may even drive the system into field-induced spin-liquid phases that are not adiabatically connected to the integrable limit. A prominent example is the quantum Majorana metal, in which the distinct dynamics of fractionalized Majorana fermions can become directly visible in scattering. This review highlights recent progress on these related questions: in which field-stabilized QSL regimes and nearby emergent phases, and under what conditions, can the response of a specific fractionalized quasiparticle be isolated and positively understood, thereby clarifying the existence and the experimental scope of putative spin liquids? We review the progress on these questions across Abelian, non-Abelian, and emergent quantum phases under magnetic field that are not perturbatively connected to the integrable limit. We connect these field-induced dynamical phenomena to concrete experimental observables, relevant for neutron scattering, resonant inelastic x-ray scattering, and pump-probe spectroscopy, techniques that are capable of identifying the nature of different magnetic-field-induced phases and resolving specific types of fractionalized particles, including Majoranas andfluxes.

PMID:
42842283
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