Ground State Properties of the Doped Kitaev-Heisenberg Chain: Topological Superconducting and Mott Insulating Phases Driven by Magnetic Frustration

Abstract

We study the hole-doped Kitaev-Heisenberg chain using the density-matrix renormalization group. In the Kitaev-only limit, the bond-directional exchange itself promotes pairing, favoring spin-singlet and spin-triplet superconducting tendencies for antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic Kitaev couplings, respectively, together with finite-size Majorana edge correlations suggestive of topological superconductivity. In the full Kitaev-Heisenberg chain, cooperative $J$ and $K$ exchanges broadly stabilize superconductivity, while competition between $J$ and $K$ induces a strong filling dependence and enables superconductivity even when both $J$ and $K$ are weak. At quarter filling, this competition produces a Mott insulator with spontaneous hopping dimerization. These results identify magnetic frustration as a common mechanism underlying superconducting and interaction-driven insulating phases in doped Kitaev systems.

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