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Chiral Spin Liquid and Quantum Criticality in Extended $S=1/2$ Heisenberg Models on the Triangular Lattice

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2017-02-01 v1

Abstract

We investigate the J1J_1-J2J_2 Heisenberg model on the triangular lattice with an additional scalar chirality term and show that a chiral spin liquid is stabilized in a sizeable region of the phase diagram. This topological phase is situated in between a coplanar 120120^\circ N\'{e}el ordered and a non-coplanar tetrahedrally ordered phase. Furthermore we discuss the nature of the spin-disordered intermediate phase in the J1J_1-J2J_2 model. We compare the groundstates from Exact Diagonalization with a Dirac spin liquid wavefunction and propose a scenario where this wavefunction describes the quantum critical point between the 120120^\circ magnetically ordered phase and a putative Z2\mathbb{Z}_2 spin liquid.

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@article{arxiv.1604.07829,
  title  = {Chiral Spin Liquid and Quantum Criticality in Extended $S=1/2$ Heisenberg Models on the Triangular Lattice},
  author = {Alexander Wietek and Andreas M. Läuchli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.07829},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

6 pages, 5 figures (+ supp. mat.)