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$\mathrm{SU}(4)$-Symmetric Quantum Spin-Orbital Liquids on Various Lattices

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2022-01-03 v2 Materials Science Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

An emergent SU(4)\mathrm{SU}(4) symmetry discovered in the microscopic model for d1d^1 honeycomb materials [M.~G.~Yamada, M.~Oshikawa, and G.~Jackeli, Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{121}, 097201 (2018).] has enabled us to tailor exotic SU(4)\mathrm{SU}(4) models in real materials. In the honeycomb structure, the emergent SU(4)\mathrm{SU}(4) Heisenberg model would potentially have a quantum spin-orbital liquid ground state due to the \textit{multicomponent frustration}, and we can expect similar spin-orbital liquids also in three-dimensinal versions of the honeycomb lattice. In such quantum spin-orbital liquids, both the spin and orbital degrees of freedom become fractionalized and entangled together due to the strong frustrated interactions between them. Similarly to spinons in pure quantum spin liquids, quantum spin-orbital liquids can host not only spinon excitations, but also fermionic \textit{orbitalon} excitations at low temperature.

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@article{arxiv.2103.17076,
  title  = {$\mathrm{SU}(4)$-Symmetric Quantum Spin-Orbital Liquids on Various Lattices},
  author = {Masahiko G. Yamada and Masaki Oshikawa and George Jackeli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.17076},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

17 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables. Full paper of Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 097201 (arXiv:1709.05252) and a PhD thesis (arXiv:2004.01716) with substantially more details and extensions