Raman scattering mediated by Majorana fermions in Kitaev nanoribbons
We study magnetic Raman, i.e. inelastic light, scattering of Kitaev's quantum spin liquids realizable in honeycomb nanoribbons. Elementary excitations in the Kitaev spin liquids consist of itinerant Majorana (matter) fermions and localized gauge fluxes (visons). Matter fermions are characterize...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of physics. Conference series 2019-05, Vol.1220 (1), p.12046 |
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Zusammenfassung: | We study magnetic Raman, i.e. inelastic light, scattering of Kitaev's quantum spin liquids realizable in honeycomb nanoribbons. Elementary excitations in the Kitaev spin liquids consist of itinerant Majorana (matter) fermions and localized gauge fluxes (visons). Matter fermions are characterized by the projective point (gauged rotation) group inherent in the lattice. Inelastic light scattering is mediated by a pair of matter fermions without any vison excitation. We can selectively "observe" matter fermions of the same symmetry and those of different symmetries depending on the polarization of incoming and/or outgoing lights. A pair of matter fermions with particular translational quantum numbers ±k cannot be Raman active. |
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ISSN: | 1742-6588 1742-6596 |
DOI: | 10.1088/1742-6596/1220/1/012046 |