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Exotic topological order in fractal spin liquids

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2013-09-17 v4 Statistical Mechanics Quantum Physics

Abstract

We present a large class of three-dimensional spin models that possess topological order with stability against local perturbations, but are beyond description of topological quantum field theory. Conventional topological spin liquids, on a formal level, may be viewed as condensation of string-like extended objects with discrete gauge symmetries, being at fixed points with continuous scale symmetries. In contrast, ground states of fractal spin liquids are condensation of highly-fluctuating fractal objects with certain algebraic symmetries, corresponding to limit cycles under real-space renormalization group transformations which naturally arise from discrete scale symmetries of underlying fractal geometries. A particular class of three-dimensional models proposed in this paper may potentially saturate quantum information storage capacity for local spin systems.

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@article{arxiv.1302.6248,
  title  = {Exotic topological order in fractal spin liquids},
  author = {Beni Yoshida},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.6248},
  year   = {2013}
}

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18 pages, 10 figures