• Preface
    • Abstract
    • Declarations
    • Aknowledgements
  • 1 Introduction
    • Interacting Quantum Many-Body Systems
    • Mott Insulators
    • Quantum Spin Liquids
  • 2 Background
    • The Falicov Kimball Model
    • The Kitaev Honeycomb Model
    • Disorder and Localisation
  • 3 The Long Range Falicov-Kimball Model
    • The Model
    • Methods
    • Results
    • Discussion and Conclusion
  • 4 The Amorphous Kitaev Model
    • The Model
    • Methods
    • Results
    • Discussion and Conclusion
  • 5 Conclusion
  • Appendices
    • Evaluation of the Fermion Free Energy
    • Particle-Hole Symmetry
    • Markov Chain Monte Carlo
    • A skeleton implementation of MCMC
    • An implementation of the standard MH algorithm
    • Our two step MH implementation for models with classical and quantum energy terms
    • Lattice Generation
    • Lattice Colouring
    • The Projector