Mott Insulators in the Strong Spin-Orbit Coupling Limit: From Heisenberg to a Quantum Compass and Kitaev Models
by
Dr. VikramTripathi (TIFR)
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
from
to
(Asia/Kolkata)
at
Colaba Campus
(
A-304
)
Description
I will talk about this recent proposal for realising the honeycomb lattice Kitaev model in certain iridates.
Ref: G. Jackeli and G. Khaliullin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 017205 (2009).