Kaleidoscope of exotic quantum phases in a frustrated XY model
Strongly Correlated Electrons
2011-12-13 v3 Quantum Gases
Abstract
The existence of quantum spin liquids was first conjectured by Pomeranchuk some 70 years ago, who argued that frustration in simple antiferromagnetic theories could result in a Fermi-liquid-like state for spinon excitations. Here we show that a simple quantum spin model on a honeycomb lattice hosts the long sought for Bose metal with a clearly identifiable Bose surface. The complete phase diagram of the model is determined via exact diagonalization and is shown to include four distinct phases separated by three quantum phase transitions.
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@article{arxiv.1103.4123,
title = {Kaleidoscope of exotic quantum phases in a frustrated XY model},
author = {Christopher N. Varney and Kai Sun and Victor Galitski and Marcos Rigol},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.4123},
year = {2011}
}