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cond-mat.str-el2013★ 20 cited
Unpaired Majorana modes in the gapped phase of Kitaev's honeycomb model
Olga Petrova, Paula Mellado, Oleg Tchernyshyov
We study the gapped phase of Kitaev's honeycomb model (a Z_2 spin liquid) in the presence of lattice defects. We find that some dislocations and bond defects carry unpaired Majoran…
cond-mat.str-el2013★ 20 cited
Magnetic monopole polarons in spin ice with mixed coordination numbers
Gia-Wei Chern, Paula Mellado
Emergent quasiparticles that arise from the fractionalization of the microscopic degrees of freedom have been one of the central themes in modern condensed matter physics. The noti…