Heat transport in the anisotropic Kitaev spin liquid

Abstract

We present a study of longitudinal thermal transport in the Kitaev spin model on the honeycomb lattice, focusing on the role of anisotropic exchange to cover both, gapless and gapped phases. Employing a complementary combination of exact diagonalization on small systems and an average gauge configuration approach for up to $\sim O(10^4)$ spinful sites, we report results for the dynamical energy current auto-correlation function as well as the dc thermal conductivity over a wide range of temperatures and exchange anisotropies. Despite a pseudogap in the current correlation spectra, induced by emergent thermal gauge disorder on any finite system, we find that in the thermodynamic limit, gapless and gapful phases both feature normal dissipative transport, with a temperature dependence crossing over from power law to exponentially activated behavior upon gap opening.

arXiv comment6 pages, 5 figures

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