Spin dynamics in the Kitaev model with disorder: Quantum Monte Carlo study of dynamical spin structure factor, magnetic susceptibility, and NMR relaxation rate

Abstract

We investigate the impact of two types of disorder, bond randomness and site dilution, on the spin dynamics in the Kitaev model on a honeycomb lattice. The ground state of this model is a canonical quantum spin liquid with spin fractionalization into two types of quasiparticles, itinerant Majorana fermions and localized fluxes. Using unbiased quantum Monte Carlo simulations, we calculate the temperature evolution of the dynamical spin structure factor, the magnetic susceptibility, and the NMR relaxation rate. In the dynamical spin structure factor, we find that the two types of disorder affect seriously the low-energy peak dominantly originating from the flux excitations, rather than the high-energy continuum from the Majorana excitations, in a different way: The bond randomness softens the peak to the lower energy with broadening, whereas the site dilution smears the peak and in addition develops the other sharp peaks inside the spin gap including the zero energy. We show that the zero-energy spin excitations, which originate from the Majorana zero modes induced around the site vacancies, survive up to the temperature comparable to the energy scale of the Kitaev interaction. For the bond randomness, the low-temperature susceptibility does not show any qualitative change against the weak disorder, but it changes to divergent behavior while increasing the strength of disorder. Similar distinct behaviors for the weak and strong disorder are observed also in the NMR relaxation rate; an exponential decay changes into a power-law decay. In contrast, for the site dilution, we find no such crossover; divergent behavior in the susceptibility and a power-law decay in the NMR relaxation rate appear immediately with the introduction of the site dilution. We discuss the relevance of our results to experiments for the Kitaev candidate materials with disorders.

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