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Exact spontaneous plaquette ground states for high-spin ladder models

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We study the exchange physics in high spin Mott insulating systems with S=3/2S=3/2 which is realizable in ultracold atomic systems. The high symmetry of SO(5) or SU(4) therein renders stronger quantum fluctuations than the usual spin-1/2 systems. A spontaneous plaquette ground state without any site and bond spin orders is rigorously proved in a ladder spin-3/2 model, whose topological excitations exhibit fractionalization behavior. The generalization to the SU(N) plaquette state is also investigated.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0507234,
  title  = {Exact spontaneous plaquette ground states for high-spin ladder models},
  author = {Shu Chen and Congjun Wu and Shou-Cheng Zhang and Yupeng Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0507234},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

4 pages, 3 figures, version to be published in Phys. Rev. B