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We show that a conical magnetic field ${bf H}=(1,1,1)H$ can be used to tune the topological order and hence anyon excitations of the $mathrm{Z_2}$ quantum spin liquid in the isotropic antiferromagnetic Kitaev model. A novel topological order, featured with Chern number $C=4$ and Abelian anyon excitations, is induced in a narrow range of intermediate fields $H_{c1}leq Hleq H_{c2}$. On the other hand, the $C=1$ Ising-topological order with non-Abelian anyon excitations, is previously known to be present at small fields, and interestingly, is found here to survive up to $H_{c1}$, and revive above $H_{c2}$, until the system becomes trivial above a higher field $H_{c3}$. The results are obtained by devoloping and applying a $mathrm{Z_2}$ mean field theory, that works at zero as well as finite fields, and the associated variational quantum Monte Carlo.
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