Phase diagram of the Kitaev-Hubbard model: ${\mathbb{Z}}_2$ slave-spin and QMC approaches

Fatemeh Mohammadi, Mojtaba Tabatabaei, Mehdi Kargarian +1

Recent experiments show that the ground state of some layered materials with localized moments is in close proximity to the Kitaev spin liquid, calling for a proper model to descri…