Anyon polarons as a window into the competing phases of the Kitaev-Gamma-Gamma' model
The study uses anyon polarons to understand how perturbations ($\Gamma$ and $\Gamma'$) in an extended Kitaev spin liquid drive transitions into various magnetically ordered states. Analyzing anyon gap-closing instabilities reveals phase transitions into zigzag, stripy, $120^ ext{o}$, and incommensurate spiral phases, matching numerical results on phase nature and critical coupling values.