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  title info:
    title: Dynamics of a Quantum Spin Liquid
  name:
    name part: Knolle, Johannes.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 140 p. 46 illus., 4 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This thesis presents an exact theoretical study of dynamical correlation functions in different phases of a two-dimensional quantum spin liquid. By calculating the dynamical spin structure factor and the Raman scattering cross section, this thesis shows that there are salient signatures—qualitative and quantitative—of the Majorana fermions and the gauge fluxes emerging as effective degrees of freedom in the exactly solvable Kitaev honeycomb lattice model. The model is a representative of a class of spin liquids with Majorana fermions coupled to Z2 gauge fields. The qualitative features of the response functions should therefore be characteristic for this broad class of topological states.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Kitaev's Honeycomb Lattice Model -- Dynamic Spin Correlations - Mapping to a Quantum Quench -- Results for the Structure Error -- Non-Abelian Phase and the Effect of Disorder -- Raman Scattering -- Conclusion and Outlook -- Appendix A: Pfaffians from Path Integrals -- Appendix B: X-Ray Edge and Singular Integral Equations -- Appendix C: Exact Diagonalization of Four Dimers -- Appendix D: Calculation of Matrix Elements.
  note: by Johannes Knolle.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum field theory
  subject:
    topic: String theory
  subject:
    topic: Superconductivity
  subject:
    topic: Superconductors
  subject:
    topic: Magnetism
  subject:
    topic: Magnetic materials
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Strongly Correlated Systems, Superconductivity
  subject:
    topic: Magnetism, Magnetic Materials
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Field Theories, String Theory
  classification: QC611.9-611.98
  classification: 530.41
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research
  identifier: 9783319239538
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23953-8
  record info:
    record creation date: 160405
    record change date: 20160405173458.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-23953-8