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Classification of symmetry fractionalization in gapped $\mathbb Z_2$ spin liquids

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2018-03-21 v3

Abstract

In quantum spin liquids, fractional spinon excitations carry half-integer spins and other fractional quantum numbers of lattice and time-reversal symmetries. Different patterns of symmetry fractionalization distinguish different spin liquid phases. In this work, we derive a general constraint on the symmetry fractionalization of spinons in a gapped spin liquid, realized in a system with an odd number of spin-1/21/2 per unit cell. In particular, when applied to kagome/triangular lattices, we obtain a complete classification of symmetric gapped Z2\mathbb{Z_2} spin liquids.

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@article{arxiv.1606.04544,
  title  = {Classification of symmetry fractionalization in gapped $\mathbb Z_2$ spin liquids},
  author = {Yang Qi and Meng Cheng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.04544},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

11 pages, 4 figures. v2 published version: minor revisions, and journal reference added