Kitaev quasiparticles in a proximate spin liquid: A many-body localization perspective

@article{Kumar2020KitaevQI,
title={Kitaev quasiparticles in a proximate spin liquid: A many-body localization perspective},
author={Aman Kumar and Vikram Tripathi},
journal={Physical Review B},
year={2020},
volume={102},
pages={100401}
}
• Published 30 September 2019
• Physics
• Physical Review B
We study the stability of Kitaev quasiparticles in the presence of a perturbing Heisenberg interaction as a Fock space localization phenomenon. We identify parameter regimes where Kitaev states are localized, fractal, or delocalized in the Fock space of exact eigenstates, with the first two implying quasiparticle stability. Finite-temperature calculations show that a vison gap, and a nonzero plaquette Wilson loop at low temperatures, both characteristic of the deconfined Kitaev spin-liquid… Expand

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