SU(4) chiral spin liquid, exciton supersolid and electric detection in moir\'e bilayers
Abstract
We propose moir\'e bilayer as a platform where exotic quantum phases can be stabilized and electrically detected. Moir\'e bilayer consists of two separate moir\'e superlattice layers coupled through the inter-layer Coulomb repulsion. In the small distance limit, an SU(4) spin can be formed by combining layer pseudospin and the real spin. As a concrete example, we study an SU(4) spin model on triangular lattice in the fundamental representation. By tuning a three-site ring exchange term , we find SU(4) symmetric crystallized phase and an SU(4) chiral spin liquid (CSL) at the balanced filling. We also predict two different exciton supersolid phases with inter-layer coherence at imbalanced filling under displacement field. Especially, the system can simulate an SU(2) Bose-Einstein-condensation (BEC) by injecting inter-layer excitons into the magnetically ordered Mott insulator at the layer polarized limit. Smoking gun evidences of these phases can be obtained by measuring the pseudo-spin transport in the counter-flow channel.
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@article{arxiv.2103.09825,
title = {SU(4) chiral spin liquid, exciton supersolid and electric detection in moir\'e bilayers},
author = {Ya-Hui Zhang and D. N. Sheng and Ashvin Vishwanath},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.09825},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
6+12 pages; 10 figures; v2: highlight experimental part; add calculation at imbalanced filling