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Chiral spin states in polarized kagome spin systems with spin-orbit coupling

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2011-02-14 v1

Abstract

We study quantum spin systems with a proper combination of geometric frustration, spin-orbit coupling and ferromagnetism. We argue that such a system is likely to be in a chiral spin state, a fractional quantum Hall (FQH) state for bosonic spin degrees of freedom. The energy scale of the bosonic FQH state is of the same order as the spin-orbit coupling and ferromagnetism --- overall much higher than the energy scale of FQH states in semiconductors.

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@article{arxiv.1102.2406,
  title  = {Chiral spin states in polarized kagome spin systems with spin-orbit coupling},
  author = {Jia-Wei Mei and Evelyn Tang and Xiao-Gang Wen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.2406},
  year   = {2011}
}