Universal thermodynamics in the Kitaev fractional liquid

2020/06/03 by Han Li, Dai-Wei Qu, Hao-Kai Zhang +4 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Condensed Matter Physics #Curie temperature #Ferromagnetism #Non-equilibrium thermodynamics #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Specific heat #Thermal #Thermal equilibrium #Topological Materials and Phenomena #cond-mat.stat-mech #cond-mat.str-el

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevresearch.2.043015

published as Phys. Rev. Research 2, 043015 (2020) · 16 pages, 16 figures

arxiv created 2020/06/03 · openalex created_date 2020/06/12 · openalex publication_date 2020/10/02 · arxiv updated 2020/10/07 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

The authors perform finite-temperature simulations of the extended Kitaev model by the recently developed thermal tensor-network approach, and show the onset of a Kitaev fractional liquid with emergent Curie law of magnetic susceptibility.

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