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Spin Liquid Condensate of Spinful Bosons

Quantum Gases 2014-08-27 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We introduce the concept of a bosonic spin liquid condensate (SLC), where spinful bosons in a lattice form a zero-temperature spin disordered charge condensate that preserves the spin rotation symmetry, but breaks the U(1) symmetry due to a spinless order parameter with charge one. It has an energy gap to all the spin excitations. We show that such SLC states can be realized in a system of spin S2S\ge 2 bosons. In particular, we analyze the SLC phase diagram in the spin 2 case using a mean-field variational wave function method. We show there is a direct analogy between the SLC and the resonating-valence-bond (RVB) state.

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@article{arxiv.1401.0593,
  title  = {Spin Liquid Condensate of Spinful Bosons},
  author = {Biao Lian and Shou-Cheng Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.0593},
  year   = {2014}
}

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5+7 pages, 3+1 figures