RuCl3 and Other Kitaev Magnets

Presentations

• Geometry dependence of the thermal Hall effect in chiral spin liquids

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 17, 2026, 8:00 AM – March 17, 2026, 8:36 AM

  Publication: arXiv:2505.03879
  arXiv:2505.05417

  Presenters

  • Gabor Halasz

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Quantum Science Center

  Authors

  • Gabor Halasz

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Quantum Science Center

  • Heda Zhang

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Sujoy Ghosh

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Stephen Jesse

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Thomas Ward

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • David Tennant

    • University of Tennessee

  • Michael McGuire

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Jiaqiang Yan

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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• Angle-Resolved Specific Heat Measurements under High Magnetic Fields in the Kitaev Material α-RuCl₃

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 8:36 AM – March 17, 2026, 8:48 AM

  Publication: [1] A. Kitaev, Ann. Phys. 321, 2 (2006). [2] Y. Kasahara et al., Nature 559, 227 (2018).
  [3] O. Tanaka et al., Nat. Phys. 18, 429 (2022).

  Presenters

  • Yusuke Tsuzuki

    • Univ. of Tokyo

  Authors

  • Yusuke Tsuzuki

    • Univ. of Tokyo

  • Kumpei Imamura

  • Yuki Akui

  • Ryuichi Namba

    • Univ of Tokyo-Kashiwanoha

  • Kota Ishihara

    • Univ of Tokyo

  • Shusaku imajo

  • Akira Matsuo

  • Koichi Kindo

  • Mitsuru Akaki

  • Motoi Kimata

  • Eun-Gook Moon

    • Korea Adv Inst of Sci & Tech

  • Yuji Matsuda

  • Yuta Mizukami

    • Tohoku University

  • Kenichiro Hashimoto

    • The University of Tokyo

  • Takasada Shibauchi

    • Univ of Tokyo-Kashiwanoha

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• Magnetic phase diagram of α-RuCl₃ in magnetic fields oriented away from the crystallographic ab plane

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 8:48 AM – March 17, 2026, 9:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Yasumasa Takano

    • University of Florida

  Authors

  • Yasumasa Takano

    • University of Florida

  • Xinzhe Hu

    • University of Florida

  • Yanbo Guo

    • University of Florida

  • Scott Hannahs

    • National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

  • David Graf

    • Florida State University

  • Eun Sang Choi

  • Nathanael Fortune

    • Smith College

  • Joyce Palmer-fortune

  • Jiaqiang Yan

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Stephen Nagler

    • University of Tennessee

  • David Mandrus

    • University of Tennessee

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• Intermediate Field Spinon Dynamics in alpha-RuCl3

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 9:00 AM – March 17, 2026, 9:12 AM

  Publication: Intermediate Field Spin(on) Dynamics in α-RuCl3, C. L. Sarkis, K.D. Dixit, P. Rao, G. Khundzakishvili, C. Balz, J-Q. Yan, B. Winn, T.J.
  Williams, R. Moessner, D.A. Tennant, J. Knolle, S.E. Nagler, and A. Banerjee.

  Presenters

  • Arnab Banerjee

    • Purdue University and Quantum Science Center

  Authors

  • Arnab Banerjee

    • Purdue University and Quantum Science Center

  • Colin Sarkis

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Kiranmayi Dixit

    • Purdue University

  • Barry Winn

  • Peng Rao

    • Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems

  • Guga Khundzakishvili

    • Purdue University

  • Christian Balz

    • Oak Ridge National Lab

  • Jiaqiang Yan

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Travis Williams

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Roderich Moessner

    • Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems

  • Alan Tennant

    • University of Tennessee

  • Johannes Knolle

    • Univ of Cambridge

  • Stephen Nagler

    • University of Tennessee

  • Bishnu Belbase

    • Purdue University

  • Arjun Unnikrishnan

    • Purdue University

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• Uniaxial strain tuning of the magnetic transition in α-RuCl₃

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 9:12 AM – March 17, 2026, 9:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Issam Khayr

    • University of Minnesota

  Authors

  • Issam Khayr

    • University of Minnesota

  • Luka Rogic

    • University of Zagreb

  • Sudarshan Sharma

    • University of Minnesota

  • Richard Spieker

    • University of Minnesota

  • Songxue Chi

  • Arianna Minelli

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Jiaqiang Yan

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Stephen Nagler

    • University of Tennessee

  • Damjan Pelc

    • University of Zagreb

  • Martin Greven

    • University of Minnesota

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• Spin-lattice coupling induced chiral phonons and their signature in Raman Circular Dichroism

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 9:24 AM – March 17, 2026, 9:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Eduard Koller

    • TU Munich

  Authors

  • Eduard Koller

    • TU Munich

  • Swetlana Swarup

    • University of Minnesota

  • Johannes Knolle

    • TU Munich

  • Natalia Perkins

    • University of Minnesota

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• Majorana Signature of Kitaev Spin Liquid in Planar Tunneling Geometry

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 9:36 AM – March 17, 2026, 9:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Weiyao Li

    • University of Minnesota

  Authors

  • Weiyao Li

    • University of Minnesota

  • Vitor Dantas Meireles

    • University of Minnesota

  • Wen-Han Kao

    • University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Natalia Perkins

    • University of Minnesota

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• Meta-Analysis of Effective Spin Models for α-RuCl₃ from Paramagnetic Continuum Excitations

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 9:48 AM – March 17, 2026, 10:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Chaebin Kim

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Chaebin Kim

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Martin Mourigal

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

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• First-principles study of bulk stacking, J_eff picture, magnetic Hamiltonian, $g$-factors, and structural distortions of α-RuCl₃

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 10:00 AM – March 17, 2026, 10:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Seung-Ju Hong

    • Seoul Natl Univ

  Authors

  • Seung-Ju Hong

    • Seoul Natl Univ

  • Tae Yun Kim

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Cheol-Hwan Park

    • Seoul Natl Univ

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• Tuning Kitaev and Heisenberg Interactions with Pressure in Ag₃LiRh₂O₆

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 10:12 AM – March 17, 2026, 10:24 AM

  Publication: Nature Communications, 16, 4712 (2025)

  Presenters

  • Fazel Tafti

    • Boston College

  Authors

  • Fazel Tafti

    • Boston College

  • Piyush Sakrikar

    • Boston College

  • Bin Shen

  • Eduardo Poldi

    • University of Illinois at Chicago

  • Faranak Bahrami

    • Princeton University

  • Xiaodong Hu

    • University of Washington

  • Eric Kenney

    • Boston College

  • Qiaochu Wang

    • Brown University

  • Kyle Fruhling

    • Boston College

  • Chennan Wang

    • University of Fribourg

  • Ritu Gupta

  • Rustem Khasanov

  • Hubertus Luetkens

  • Stuart Calder

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Adam Aczel

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Gilberto Fabbris

    • Argonne National Laboratory

  • Russell Hemley

    • University of Illinois at Chicago

  • Kemp Plumb

    • Brown University

  • Ying Ran

    • Boston College

  • Phillipp Gegenwart

  • Alexander Tsirlin

    • University of Augsburg

  • Daniel Haskel

    • Argonne National Laboratory

  • Michael Graf

    • Boston College

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• Synthesis and Characterization of a New Kitaev Quantum Spin Liquid Candidate, H₃LiRh₂O₆

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 10:24 AM – March 17, 2026, 10:36 AM

  Presenters

  • SANJAY BACHHAR

    • Duke University

  Authors

  • SANJAY BACHHAR

    • Duke University

  • Rabindranath Bag

    • Duke University

  • Wen-Han Kao

    • University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Natalia Perkins

    • University of Minnesota

  • Sara Haravifard

    • Duke University

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• Tuning the Extended Heisenberg-Kitaev Model to α-RuCl$_3$: Stabilizing Zigzag Order and Quantifying Proximity to the Fractionalized Quantum Spin Liquid

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 17, 2026, 10:36 AM – March 17, 2026, 10:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Satyananda Chabungbam

    • Assam Don Bosco University

  Authors

  • Satyananda Chabungbam

    • Assam Don Bosco University

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• Analysis of magnetic states in Kitaev candidate materials RuX₃ (X = Cl, Br) using a localized effective model based on first-principles calculations

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 10:48 AM – March 17, 2026, 11:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Ryuta Iwazaki

    • Tohoku University

  Authors

  • Ryuta Iwazaki

    • Tohoku University

  • Shinnosuke Koyama

  • Takashi Koretsune

    • Tohoku University, Japan

  • Shintaro Hoshino

  • Joji Nasu

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