We investigate the J1-J2 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 120∘ N\'{e}el ordered and a non-coplanar tetrahedrally ordered phase. Furthermore we discuss the nature of the spin-disordered intermediate phase in the J1-J2 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 120∘ magnetically ordered phase and a putative Z2 spin liquid.
@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}
}