Emergence of vortex state in the $S=1$ Kitaev-Heisenberg model with single-ion anisotropy

Ayushi Singhania, Jeroen van den Brink, Satoshi Nishimoto

The search for Kitaev spin liquid states has recently broadened to include a number of honeycomb materials with integer spin moments. The qualitative difference with their spin-1/2…