Mott Insulators in the Strong Spin-Orbit Coupling Limit: From Heisenberg to a Quantum Compass and Kitaev Models

by Dr Vikram Tripathi (TIFR)

Wednesday 23 Feb 2011, 14:30 → 15:30 Asia/Kolkata

A-304 (Colaba Campus)

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).