3 papers
cond-mat.str-el2025
Exact Fractionalized Ground States in an Extended Spin-1 Kitaev Chain
Alwyn Jose Raja, R. Ganesh
Inspired by the Affleck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki (AKLT) model, we present exact solutions for a spin-1 chain with Kitaev-like couplings. We consider an expanded Kitaev model with biline…
cond-mat.str-el2025
Spin-basis wavefunctions for the one-dimensional Kitaev model
Alwyn Jose Raja, Rajesh Narayanan, R. Ganesh
Magnetic phases with quantum entanglement are often expressed in terms of parton wavefunctions. Relatively few examples are known where wavefunctions can be directly written down i…
cond-mat.str-el2023
Entropic sampling in frustrated magnets: role of self-intersecting spaces
Alwyn Jose Raja, R. Ganesh
Frustrated magnets typically possess a large space of classical ground states. If this degeneracy is not protected by symmetry, thermal fluctuations may `select' certain states via…