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    Power-law spin correlations in a perturbed honeycomb spin model

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    We consider spin-12\frac{1}{2} model on the honeycomb lattice~\cite{Kitaev06} in presence of a weak magnetic field hα1h_{\alpha }\ll 1. Such a perturbation destroys exact integrability of the model in terms of gapless fermions and \textit{static} Z2Z_{2} fluxes. We show that it results in appearance of a long-range tail in the irreducible dynamic spin correlation function: sz(t,r)sz(0,0)hz2f(t,r)% \left\langle \left\langle s^{z}(t,r)s^{z}(0,0)\right\rangle \right\rangle \propto h_{z}^{2}f(t,r), where f(t,r)[max(t,r)]4f(t,r)\propto \lbrack \max (t,r)]^{-4} is proportional to the density polarization function of fermions
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