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Non-Abelian chiral spin liquid on a simple non-Archimedean lattice

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2020-08-28 v2

Abstract

We extend the scope of Kitaev spin liquids to non-Archimedean lattices. For the pentaheptite lattice, which results from the proliferation of Stone-Wales defects on the honeycomb lattice, we find an exactly solvable non-Abelian chiral spin liquid with spontaneous time reversal symmetry breaking due to lattice loops of odd length. Our findings call for potential extensions of exact results for Kitaev models which are based on reflection positivity, which is not fulfilled by the pentaheptite lattice. We further elaborate on potential realizations of our chiral spin liquid proposal in strained α\alpha-RuCl3_3.

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@article{arxiv.1908.05280,
  title  = {Non-Abelian chiral spin liquid on a simple non-Archimedean lattice},
  author = {Valerio Peri and Seulgi Ok and Stepan S. Tsirkin and Titus Neupert and Ganapathy Baskaran and Martin Greiter and Roderich Moessner and Ronny Thomale},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.05280},
  year   = {2020}
}

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4+ pages, 4 figures, Supplemental Material (6 pages, 7 figures)