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Non-Abelian Chiral Spin Liquid on the Kagome Lattice

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2018-06-01 v2

Abstract

We study S=1S=1 spin liquid states on the kagome lattice constructed by Gutzwiller-projected px+ipyp_x+ip_y superconductors. We show that the obtained spin liquids are either non-Abelian or Abelian topological phases, depending on the topology of the fermionic mean-field state. By calculating the modular matrices SS and TT, we confirm that projected topological superconductors are non-Abelian chiral spin liquid (NACSL). The chiral central charge and the spin Hall conductance we obtained agree very well with the SO(3)1SO(3)_1 (or, equivalently, SU(2)2SU(2)_2) field theory predictions. We propose a local Hamiltonian which may stabilize the NACSL. From a variational study we observe a topological phase transition from the NACSL to the Z2Z_2 Abelian spin liquid.

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@article{arxiv.1509.00391,
  title  = {Non-Abelian Chiral Spin Liquid on the Kagome Lattice},
  author = {Zheng-Xin Liu and Hong-Hao Tu and Ying-Hai Wu and Rong-Qiang He and Xiong-Jun Liu and Yi Zhou and Tai-Kai Ng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.00391},
  year   = {2018}
}

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12 pages, 7 figures, 1 table