Johannes Knolle completed his doctoral studies at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany (with Prof. R. Moessner). He is now a Postdoc at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK.

• Introduction.- Kitaev's Honeycomb Lattice Model.- Dynamic Spin Correlations - Mapping to a Quantum Quench.- Results for the Structure Error.- Non-Abelian Phase and the Effect of Disorder.- Raman Scattering.- Conclusion and Outlook.- Appendix A: Pfaffians from Path Integrals.- Appendix B: X-Ray Edge and Singular Integral Equations.- Appendix C: Exact Diagonalization of Four Dimers.- Appendix D: Calculation of Matrix Elements.

Johannes Knolle completed his doctoral studies at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany (with Prof. R. Moessner). He is now a Postdoc at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK.

• Introduction.- Kitaev's Honeycomb Lattice Model.- Dynamic Spin Correlations - Mapping to a Quantum Quench.- Results for the Structure Error.- Non-Abelian Phase and the Effect of Disorder.- Raman Scattering.- Conclusion and Outlook.- Appendix A: Pfaffians from Path Integrals.- Appendix B: X-Ray Edge and Singular Integral Equations.- Appendix C: Exact Diagonalization of Four Dimers.- Appendix D: Calculation of Matrix Elements.

Johannes Knolle completed his doctoral studies at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany (with Prof. R. Moessner). He is now a Postdoc at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK.

• Introduction.- Kitaev's Honeycomb Lattice Model.- Dynamic Spin Correlations - Mapping to a Quantum Quench.- Results for the Structure Error.- Non-Abelian Phase and the Effect of Disorder.- Raman Scattering.- Conclusion and Outlook.- Appendix A: Pfaffians from Path Integrals.- Appendix B: X-Ray Edge and Singular Integral Equations.- Appendix C: Exact Diagonalization of Four Dimers.- Appendix D: Calculation of Matrix Elements.