Proximate Dirac spin liquid in honeycomb lattice $J_1$-$J_3$ XXZ model: Numerical study and application to cobaltates

Anjishnu Bose, Manodip Routh, Sreekar Voleti +4

Recent theoretical and experimental work suggest that the honeycomb cobaltates, initially proposed as candidate Kitaev quantum magnets, are in fact described by a pseudospin-$1/2$…