Dynamics of a Quantum Spin Liquid - Couverture souple

Knolle, Johannes

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3319795627 ISBN 13 : 9783319795621

Editeur : Springer, 2018

Synopsis

This thesis presents an exact theoretical study of dynamical correlation functions in different phases of a two-dimensional quantum spin liquid. By calculating the dynamical spin structure factor and the Raman scattering cross section, this thesis shows that there are salient signatures—qualitative and quantitative—of the Majorana fermions and the gauge fluxes emerging as effective degrees of freedom in the exactly solvable Kitaev honeycomb lattice model. The model is a representative of a class of spin liquids with Majorana fermions coupled to Z2 gauge fields. The qualitative features of the response functions should therefore be characteristic for this broad class of topological states.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Johannes Knolle completed his doctoral studies at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany (with Prof. R. Moessner). He is now a Postdoc at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3319795627
• ISBN 13: 9783319795621
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 156
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