3 papers
cond-mat.str-el2026
Generation of chirality and orbital magnetization by Stone-Wales-type lattice defects in the Kitaev spin liquid
Arnab Seth, Fay Borhani, Itamar Kimchi
In this work we extend our study of the effect of certain crystallographic defects on the spin-1/2 Kitaev honeycomb spin liquid (arXiv:2511.19409), focusing on its gapless phase an…
cond-mat.str-el2026
Chiral spin liquid instability of the Kitaev honeycomb model with crystallographic defects
Arnab Seth, Fay Borhani, Itamar Kimchi
We study the spin-1/2 Kitaev honeycomb gapless spin liquid in the presence of Stone-Wales-type local lattice defects with odd-sided plaquettes. While the clean Kitaev model has no…
cond-mat.str-el2025
Real-space chirality from crystalline topological defects in the Kitaev spin liquid
Fay Borhani, Arnab Seth, Itamar Kimchi
We show that certain crystalline topological defects in the gapless Kitaev honeycomb spin liquid model generate a chirality and Majorana fermion orbital magnetization that depends…