Perturbative approach to an exactly solved problem: the Kitaev honeycomb model

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2008-09-09

arxiv.org/abs/0809.1553v2

Phys. Rev. B 78, 245121 (2008)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Other Condensed Matter

28 pages, 25 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.78.245121

We analyze the gapped phase of the Kitaev honeycomb model perturbatively in the isolated-dimer limit. Our analysis is based on the continuous unitary transformations method which allows one to compute the spectrum as well as matrix elements of operators between eigenstates, at high order. The starting point of our study consists in an exact mapping of the original honeycomb spin system onto a square-lattice model involving an effective spin and a hardcore boson. We then derive the low-energy effective Hamiltonian up to order 10 which is found to describe an interacting-anyon system, contrary to the order 4 result which predicts a free theory. These results give the ground-state energy in any vortex sector and thus also the vortex gap, which is relevant for experiments. Furthermore, we show that the elementary excitations are emerging free fermions composed of a hardcore boson with an attached spin- and phase- operator string. We also focus on observables and compute, in particular, the spin-spin correlation functions. We show that they admit a multi-plaquette expansion that we derive up to order 6. Finally, we study the creation and manipulation of anyons with local operators, show that they also create fermions, and discuss the relevance of our findings for experiments in optical lattices.

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