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SUBMITTER: Gordon JS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6554414 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gordon Jacob S JS Catuneanu Andrei A Sørensen Erik S ES Kee Hae-Young HY
Nature communications 20190606 1
Elementary excitations in entangled states such as quantum spin liquids may exhibit exotic statistics different from those obeyed by fundamental bosons and fermions. Non-Abelian anyons exist in a Kitaev spin liquid-the ground state of an exactly solvable model. A smoking-gun signature of these excitations, namely a half-integer quantized thermal Hall conductivity, was recently reported in α-RuCl<sub>3</sub>. While fascinating, a microscopic theory for this phenomenon remains elusive because the ...[more]