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20192026
most citedSign structure of thermal Hall conductivity for in-plane-field polarized Kitaev magnets

84 citations · 306 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cond-mat.str-el2026

Kohler's Rule Holds in the Strange Metallic Hubbard Model

Rebekah M. Jin, Emily Z. Zhang, Jixun K. Ding +2

Unconventional magnetotransport violating Kohler's rule has been reported in many strongly correlated strange metals, but the exact origin of these violations is yet unknown. To in…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Robust Strange Metallicity across Attractive and Repulsive Hubbard Models

Xiaoyue Ma, Emily Z. Zhang, Thomas P. Devereaux

Using determinant quantum Monte Carlo simulations, we compare charge transport in the two-dimensional attractive and repulsive Hubbard models at strong coupling, . Althoug…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Hall conductivity reveals the nature of quantum coherence in strongly correlated metals

Emily Z. Zhang, Thomas P. Devereaux

Linear-in-temperature resistivity is a hallmark for strange metallic transport, and appears universally in many strongly correlated electron systems. However, the focus on the long…

cond-mat.str-el2025★ 4 cited

Detection of chiral spin fluctuations driven by frustration in Mott insulators

Kuan H. Hsu, Chunjing Jia, Emily Z. Zhang +4

Topologically ordered states, such as chiral spin liquids, have been proposed as candidates that host fractionalized excitations. However, detecting chiral character or proximity t…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 10 cited

Microscopic Roadmap to a Yao-Lee Spin-Orbital Liquid

Derek Churchill, Emily Z. Zhang, Hae-Young Kee

The exactly solvable spin-1/2 Kitaev model on a honeycomb lattice has drawn significant interest, as it offers a pathway to realizing the long-sought after quantum spin liquid. Bui…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 1 cited

Intrinsic Thermal Hall Effect in Mott Insulators

Jixun K. Ding, Emily Z. Zhang, Wen O. Wang +4

In light of recent experimental data indicating a substantial thermal Hall effect in square lattice antiferromagnetic Mott insulators, we investigate whether a simple Mott insulato…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 6 cited

Disentangling spin excitation continua in classical and quantum magnets using 2D nonlinear spectroscopy

Emily Z. Zhang, Ciarán Hickey, Yong Baek Kim

Inelastic neutron scattering (INS) has traditionally been one of the primary methods for investigating quantum magnets, particularly in identifying a continuum of excitations as a…

cond-mat.str-el2024

Quantum Fluctuations Suppress the Critical Fields in BaCo(AsO)

Shiva Safari, William Bateman-Hemphill, Asimpunya Mitra +10

Early efforts to realize exotic quantum ground states in frustrated magnets focused on frustration arising from the lattice geometry alone. Attention has shifted to bond-dependent…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 6 cited

Electric field control of a quantum spin liquid in weak Mott insulators

Daniel J. Schultz, Alexandre Khoury, Félix Desrochers +3

The triangular lattice Hubbard model at strong coupling, whose effective spin model contains both Heisenberg and ring exchange interactions, exhibits a rich phase diagram as the ra…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 12 cited

Spin excitation continuum to topological magnon crossover and thermal Hall conductivity in Kitaev magnets

Emily Z. Zhang, Reja H. Wilke, Yong Baek Kim

There has been great interest in identifying a Kitaev quantum spin liquid state in frustrated magnets with bond-dependent interactions. In particular, the experimental report of a…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 77 cited

Geometrical frustration versus Kitaev interactions in BaCo(AsO)

Thomas Halloran, Félix Desrochers, Emily Z. Zhang +12

Recently, Co-based honeycomb magnets have been proposed as promising candidate materials to host the Kitaev spin liquid state. One of the front-runners is BaCo(AsO) (BC…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 26 cited

Uncovering footprints of dipolar-octupolar quantum spin ice from neutron scattering signatures

Masashi Hosoi, Emily Z. Zhang, Adarsh S. Patri +1

Recent experiments on CeZrO suggest that this material may host a novel form of quantum spin ice, a three-dimensional quantum spin liquid with an emergent photon. The C…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 7 cited

Dynamical Signatures of Rank-2 Spin Liquids

Emily Z. Zhang, Finn Lasse Buessen, Yong Baek Kim

Emergent gauge theories and artificial photons in frustrated magnets are outstanding examples of many-body collective phenomena. The classical and quantum regimes of these s…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 69 cited

Topological magnons for thermal Hall transport in frustrated magnets with bond-dependent interactions

Emily Z. Zhang, Li Ern Chern, Yong Baek Kim

Thermal transport in topologically-ordered phases of matter provides valuable insights as it can detect the charge-neutral quasiparticles that would not directly couple to electrom…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 84 cited

Sign structure of thermal Hall conductivity for in-plane-field polarized Kitaev magnets

Li Ern Chern, Emily Z. Zhang, Yong Baek Kim

The appearance of half-quantized thermal Hall conductivity in -RuCl in the presence of in-plane magnetic fields has been taken as a strong evidence for Kitaev spin liquid. A…

physics.app-ph2019★ 4 cited

Efficiency limits of electronically-coupled upconverter and quantum ratchet solar cells using detailed balance

Emily Z. Zhang, Jacob J. Krich

The intermediate band solar cell (IBSC) and quantum ratchet solar cell (QRSC) have the potential to surpass the efficiency of standard single-junction solar cells by allowing sub-g…