Spin quantum Hall effects in a spin-1 topological paramagnet
Strongly Correlated Electrons
2014-06-02 v2
Abstract
AKLT state (or Haldane phase) in a spin-1 chain represents a large class of gapped topological paramagnets, which hosts symmetry-protected gapless excitations on the boundary. In this work we show how to realize this type of featureless spin-1 states on a generic two-dimensional lattice. These states have a gapped spectrum in the bulk but supports gapless edge states protected by spin rotational symmetry along a certain direction, and are featured by spin quantum Hall effect. Using fermion representation of integer-spins we show a concrete example of such spin-1 topological paramagnets on kagome lattice, and suggest a microscopic spin-1 Hamiltonian which may realize it.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1212.0863,
title = {Spin quantum Hall effects in a spin-1 topological paramagnet},
author = {Yuan-Ming Lu and Dung-Hai Lee},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.0863},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
5 pages, 2 figures, published version, references updated