Time-Domain Anyon Interferometry in Kitaev Honeycomb Spin Liquids and Beyond.
Journal
Physical review letters
ISSN: 1079-7114
Titre abrégé: Phys Rev Lett
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0401141
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
30 Apr 2021
30 Apr 2021
Historique:
received:
09
11
2020
accepted:
30
03
2021
entrez:
14
5
2021
pubmed:
15
5
2021
medline:
15
5
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Motivated by recent experiments on the Kitaev honeycomb magnet α-RuCl_{3}, we introduce time-domain probes of the edge and quasiparticle content of non-Abelian spin liquids. Our scheme exploits ancillary quantum spins that communicate via time-dependent tunneling of energy into and out of the spin liquid's chiral Majorana edge state. We show that the ancillary-spin dynamics reveals the edge-state velocity and, in suitable geometries, detects individual non-Abelian anyons and emergent fermions via a time-domain counterpart of quantum-Hall anyon interferometry. We anticipate applications to a wide variety of topological phases in solid-state and cold-atoms settings.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33988434
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.177204
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
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