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Resonating valence bond realization of spin-1 non-Abelian chiral spin liquid on the torus

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2021-02-19 v2

Abstract

We propose resonating valence bond wave functions for a spin-1 system on the torus that realize a non-Abelian chiral spin liquid. The wave functions take the form of infinite dimensional matrix product states constructed from conformal blocks of the SO(3)1\mathrm{SO}(3)_{1} Wess-Zumino-Witten model. This means that they are lattice analogues of the bosonic Moore-Read state introduced in fractional quantum Hall systems. The topological order of this system is revealed by explicit construction of three-fold degenerate ground states and analytical computation of the modular S and T matrices.

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@article{arxiv.2009.04911,
  title  = {Resonating valence bond realization of spin-1 non-Abelian chiral spin liquid on the torus},
  author = {Hua-Chen Zhang and Ying-Hai Wu and Hong-Hao Tu and Tao Xiang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.04911},
  year   = {2021}
}

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11 pages, 2 figures