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Visons in Kitaev Spin Liquids with Majorana Fermi Surfaces

Caio V. S. Soares , Rodrigo G. Pereira This is my paper

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Visons in Kitaev spin liquids with Majorana Fermi surfaces have gaps that decrease as the Fermi surface enlarges, indicating instability of the spin liquid state.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

This paper examines how visons, vortices of the Z2 gauge field, behave in Kitaev quantum spin liquids where Majorana fermions form a Fermi surface. Treating the creation of a vison pair as similar to adding a local impurity in a metal, the authors calculate the vison gap numerically on finite lattices and analytically with Green's functions. They find that the gap shrinks as the Fermi surface grows larger, which signals possible instability of the quantum spin liquid ground state. Larger Fermi surfaces also reduce changes in local spin correlations from the scattering.

Core claim

In Kitaev-type models where Majorana fermions form a Fermi surface, the vison gap decreases as the size of the Fermi surface increases. This is obtained by comparing numerical results on finite systems with an analytical Green's function approach that treats the vison pair as a local impurity potential, signalling an instability of the quantum spin liquid ground state.

What carries the argument

The mapping of vison pair creation to a local impurity potential for the Majorana fermions, solved via Green's function techniques to compute the gap while accounting for finite-size effects from the gapless modes.

If this is right

  • The vison gap decrease with larger Fermi surfaces indicates an instability of the quantum spin liquid ground state.
  • Larger Fermi surfaces suppress the change in local spin correlations due to Majorana-vison scattering.
  • The Green's function method allows reliable extraction of the gap despite strong finite-size effects from gapless fermions.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the gap closes completely in the thermodynamic limit, the spin liquid may give way to a different ordered phase at large Fermi surfaces.
  • Similar vison instabilities could occur in other Z2 spin liquids that host gapless fermion modes.
  • Tuning the Fermi surface size in numerical simulations or candidate materials could test the predicted gap reduction directly.

Load-bearing premise

The creation of a vison pair can be accurately modeled as introducing a local impurity potential in the Majorana fermion system, and finite-size effects are properly controlled when comparing numerical and analytical results.

What would settle it

A calculation of the vison gap in the thermodynamic limit for a model with a large Fermi surface that shows the gap remains finite or increases instead of decreasing.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.23014 by Caio V. S. Soares, Rodrigo G. Pereira.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: FIG. 1. Kitaev honeycomb model. (a) Sites in sublattices A view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: FIG. 2. (a) Dispersion of Majorana fermions in the perturbed view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: FIG. 3. Kagome lattice. (a) The three sublattices, A, B, view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: FIG. 5. Vison gaps in the unperturbed KHM ( view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: illustrates the energy dependence of the local Green’s function and the phase shift in the unperturbed Kitaev model. In addition to the isotropic model Jx = Jy = Jz studied in Ref. [50], we consider an example of anisotropic coupling constants in the regime 0 < Jz < Jy < Jx. When the coupling constants obey the triangle inequality Jx < Jy+Jz, the system remains in the gapless phase [8], but the Dirac cone … view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: FIG. 6. Vison gap in the perturbed KHM with isotropic cou view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: FIG. 8. Vison gap in the thermodynamic limit for the CYF view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: FIG. 9. (a) Spatial pattern of nearest-neighbor spin correla view at source ↗
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The excitation spectrum of Kitaev quantum spin liquids consists of itinerant Majorana fermions, which can be gapless or gapped, and vortices of a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ gauge field, known as visons, which are always gapped. In this work, we investigate visons in Kitaev-type models where the Majorana fermions form a Fermi surface. In this case, the creation of a vison pair is analogous to introducing a local impurity potential in a metal. Since the gapless modes lead to strong finite-size effects, we compare the numerical calculation of the vison gap on finite lattices with the result from an analytical approach based on Green's function techniques. We find that the vison gap decreases as the size of the Fermi surface increases, signalling an instability of the quantum spin liquid ground state. We also show that larger Fermi surfaces tend to suppress the change in local spin correlations due to the Majorana-vison scattering potential.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper investigates visons in Kitaev-type quantum spin liquid models with gapless Majorana fermions forming a Fermi surface. It treats vison-pair creation as analogous to a local impurity potential for the Majoranas and compares finite-lattice numerical computations of the vison gap against analytical results obtained via Green's functions and the T-matrix approximation. The central finding is that the vison gap decreases with increasing Fermi-surface size, which the authors interpret as signaling an instability of the QSL ground state; they additionally report that larger Fermi surfaces suppress the change in local spin correlations induced by the scattering potential.

Significance. If the reported trend is robust, the result would indicate that extended Majorana Fermi surfaces destabilize Kitaev QSLs through vison proliferation, providing a concrete mechanism relevant to the stability of gapless fractionalized phases and to candidate materials. The dual numerical-analytical strategy is a methodological strength when finite-size effects are controlled, but the gapless nature of the Majorana spectrum makes such control essential for the claim.

major comments (2)
  1. [Numerical-analytical comparison of vison gaps] The central claim that the vison gap decreases with Fermi-surface size rests on the numerical-analytical comparison, yet the manuscript does not demonstrate that the extrapolation procedure remains size-independent when the Fermi surface is enlarged. Because the Majorana spectrum is gapless, impurity-induced power-law oscillations are present; any mismatch in truncation between finite clusters and the continuum Green's function can produce an artificial downward trend (see the skeptic note on finite-size corrections and the abstract's description of the comparison).
  2. [Abstract and methods] The abstract states that numerical finite-lattice results are compared with analytical Green's functions but provides no details on the specific models, error control, or quantitative measures of agreement (e.g., R² or residual norms). This absence limits evaluation of whether the reported trend is supported by the data rather than by uncontrolled finite-size artifacts.
minor comments (2)
  1. Clarify how the Fermi-surface size is systematically varied across the models and how the corresponding analytical Green's functions are constructed for each case.
  2. Add a brief discussion of the range of validity of the local-impurity analogy when the Majorana density of states is finite at the Fermi level.

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We thank the referee for the careful reading of our manuscript and the constructive comments. We address each major point below and will revise the manuscript to strengthen the presentation of our finite-size analysis and to make the abstract more self-contained.

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  1. Referee: The central claim that the vison gap decreases with Fermi-surface size rests on the numerical-analytical comparison, yet the manuscript does not demonstrate that the extrapolation procedure remains size-independent when the Fermi surface is enlarged. Because the Majorana spectrum is gapless, impurity-induced power-law oscillations are present; any mismatch in truncation between finite clusters and the continuum Green's function can produce an artificial downward trend.

    Authors: We appreciate the referee's concern about possible finite-size artifacts arising from the gapless Majorana spectrum and power-law oscillations. The analytical Green's function plus T-matrix calculation is formulated directly in the thermodynamic limit and therefore contains no finite-size truncation. On the numerical side, we performed calculations on multiple cluster sizes for each Fermi-surface parameter set and extrapolated the vison gap using a scaling form that incorporates the leading 1/L power-law correction expected from the gapless fermions. The downward trend with increasing Fermi-surface size is already visible in the raw finite-size data and becomes clearer upon extrapolation; the extrapolated numerical values approach the analytical continuum result as system size grows. In the revised manuscript we will add an explicit supplementary figure displaying the raw gap versus 1/L for several Fermi-surface sizes together with the extrapolation fits, thereby demonstrating that the size dependence of the extrapolated gap itself is stable and that the trend is not an artifact of mismatched cutoffs. revision: yes

  2. Referee: The abstract states that numerical finite-lattice results are compared with analytical Green's functions but provides no details on the specific models, error control, or quantitative measures of agreement (e.g., R² or residual norms). This absence limits evaluation of whether the reported trend is supported by the data rather than by uncontrolled finite-size artifacts.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract, in its current concise form, does not convey the technical specifics needed for immediate assessment. The main text already specifies the Kitaev-type Hamiltonians (honeycomb lattice with anisotropic couplings chosen to produce Majorana Fermi surfaces of controlled size), the cluster sizes employed, and the quantitative comparison between the numerically extrapolated vison gaps and the T-matrix analytic result. In the revised version we will expand the abstract to name the models, state the range of system sizes used, and note that agreement is quantified by the relative difference between extrapolated numerical and analytic gaps (typically < 5 % for the largest clusters). We will also add a short statement on the error control provided by the finite-size scaling analysis. These changes will make the abstract self-contained while preserving its brevity. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper's central result—that the vison gap decreases with increasing Majorana Fermi-surface size—is obtained by direct numerical diagonalization on finite lattices combined with an independent analytical T-matrix/Green's-function treatment of the vison-pair-as-impurity problem. Neither step reduces to a self-definition, a fitted parameter renamed as a prediction, or a load-bearing self-citation; the impurity analogy is stated as an assumption and the finite-size comparison is performed explicitly rather than presupposed. The derivation chain therefore remains self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The work rests on standard assumptions of the Kitaev model and Z2 gauge theory without introducing new free parameters or entities.

axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Kitaev Hamiltonian admits exact Majorana fermion representation with Z2 gauge field
    Standard starting point for Kitaev spin liquids invoked to define visons and Majorana modes
  • domain assumption Visons remain gapped excitations even when Majorana fermions are gapless
    Stated in abstract as background for the Fermi-surface case

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