3 papers
cond-mat.str-el2026
Impurity quadrupole moments as local probes of flux sectors in the Kitaev spin liquid
Masahiro O. Takahashi, Wen-Han Kao, Satoshi Fujimoto +1
Emergent fluxes play a central role in the low-energy properties of quantum spin liquids (QSLs), where they encode the underlying gauge structure and fractionalization of spins. He…
cond-mat.str-el2026
Majorana Signatures in Planar Tunneling through a Kitaev Spin Liquid
Weiyao Li, Vitor Dantas, Wen-Han Kao +1
We propose a planar tunneling setup to probe vacancy-bound Majorana modes in the chiral Kitaev spin liquid. In this geometry, the inelastic tunneling conductance can be expressed d…
cond-mat.str-el2025
flux binding to higher-spin impurities in the Kitaev spin liquid
Masahiro O. Takahashi, Wen-Han Kao, Satoshi Fujimoto +1
Stabilizing fluxes in Kitaev spin liquids (KSLs) is crucial for both characterizing candidate materials and identifying Ising anyons. In this study, we investigate the effect…