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Stable Gapless Bose Liquid Phases without any Symmetry

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2016-02-01 v1

Abstract

It is well-known that a stable algebraic spin liquid state (or equivalently an algebraic Bose liquid (ABL) state) with emergent gapless photon excitations can exist in quantum spin ice systems, or in a quantum dimer model on a bipartite 3d3d lattice. This photon phase is stable against any weak perturbation without assuming any symmetry. Further works concluded that certain lattice models give rise to more exotic stable algebraic Bose liquid phases with graviton-like excitations. In this paper we will show how these algebraic Bose liquid states can be generalized to stable phases with even more exotic types of gapless excitations and then argue that these new phases are stable against weak perturbations. We also explicitly show that these theories have an (algebraic) topological ground state degeneracy on a torus, and construct the corresponding topological invariants.

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@article{arxiv.1601.08235,
  title  = {Stable Gapless Bose Liquid Phases without any Symmetry},
  author = {Alex Rasmussen and Yi-Zhuang You and Cenke Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.08235},
  year   = {2016}
}

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8 pages, 1 figure

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