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Coupled wire construction of chiral spin liquids

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-08-12 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We develop a coupled wire construction of chiral spin liquids. The starting point are individual wires of electrons in the Mott regime that are subject to a Zeeman field and Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Suitable spin-flip couplings between the wires yield an Abelian chiral spin liquid state which supports spinon excitations above a bulk gap, and chiral edge states. The approach generalizes to non-Abelian chiral spin liquids at level k with parafermionic edge states.

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@article{arxiv.1503.05051,
  title  = {Coupled wire construction of chiral spin liquids},
  author = {Tobias Meng and Titus Neupert and Martin Greiter and Ronny Thomale},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.05051},
  year   = {2015}
}

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5 pages, 1 figure