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The properties of stable Luttinger liquid phases in models with a non-conserved number of particles are investigated. We study the Luttinger liquid phases in one-dimensional models of hard-core boson and spinless fermion chains where…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-13 Zakaria Jouini , Natalia Chepiga , Loic Herviou , Frédéric Mila

Motivated by the magnetism of pyrochlore oxides, we consider the effect of quantum fluctuations in the most general symmetry-allowed nearest-neighbor Kramers exchange Hamiltonian on the pyrochlore lattice. At the classical level, this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-12 Lasse Gresista , Daniel Lozano-Gómez , Matthias Vojta , Simon Trebst , Yasir Iqbal

We study the effective spin-orbital model that describes the magnetism of 4$d^1$ or 5$d^1$ Mott insulators in ideal tricoordinated lattices. In the limit of vanishing Hund's coupling, the model has an emergent SU(4) symmetry which is made…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-21 Willian M. H. Natori , Eric C. Andrade , Rodrigo G. Pereira

An emergent $\mathrm{SU}(4)$ symmetry discovered in the microscopic model for $d^1$ honeycomb materials [M.~G.~Yamada, M.~Oshikawa, and G.~Jackeli, Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{121}, 097201 (2018).] has enabled us to tailor exotic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-03 Masahiko G. Yamada , Masaki Oshikawa , George Jackeli

We study the spontaneous non-magnetic time-reversal symmetry breaking in a two-dimensional Fermi liquid without breaking either the translation symmetry or the U(1) charge symmetry. Assuming that the low-energy physics is described by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-12-31 Kai Sun , Eduardo Fradkin

We study the effect of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction on the triangular lattice $U(1)$ quantum spin liquid (QSL) which is stabilized by ring-exchange interactions. A weak DM interaction introduces a staggered flux to the $U(1)$ QSL…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-22 Qi-Rong Zhao , Zheng-Xin Liu

Geometrical frustration in quantum magnets provides a fertile setting for unconventional phases of matter, including quantum spin liquids (QSLs). The trellis lattice, with its complex site arrangements and edge-sharing triangular motifs,…

We find "{\it chiral symmetry breaking}" at finite energies in U(1) spin liquid, corresponding to critical particle-hole composite states with twice of the Fermi momentum (2$k_{F}$). We investigate this Fermi surface problem based on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-07-26 Ki-Seok Kim

Complexity of quantum phases of matter is often understood by the underlying gauge structures, as was recognized by the $\mathbb{Z}_2$ and U(1) gauge theory description of spin liquid in frustrated magnets. Anomalous Hall effect of…

We demonstrate that, starting with a simple fermion wave function, the steady mixed state of the evolution of a class of Lindbladians, and the ensemble created by strong local measurement of fermion density without post-selection can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-05 Kaixiang Su , Abhijat Sarma , Marcus Bintz , Thomas Kiely , Yimu Bao , Matthew P. A. Fisher , Cenke Xu

The layered honeycomb magnet $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$ has emerged as a promising candidate for realizing a Kitaev quantum spin liquid. Previous studies have reported oscillation-like anomalies in the longitudinal thermal conductivity and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-01 Y. Xing , R. Namba , K. Imamura , K. Ishihara , S. Suetsugu , T. Asaba , K. Hashimoto , T. Shibauchi , Y. Matsuda , Y. Kasahara

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) represent a novel state of matter in which quantum fluctuations prevent conventional magnetic order from being established, and the spins remain disordered even at zero temperature. There have been many…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-11 Zhen Ma , Kejing Ran , Jinghui Wang , Song Bao , Zhengwei Cai , Shichao Li , Jinsheng Wen

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are highly entangled ground states of insulating spin systems, in which magnetic ordering is prevented down to the lowest temperatures due to quantum fluctuations. One of the most extraordinary characteristics of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-22 So Takei , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We classify and characterize three dimensional $U(1)$ quantum spin liquids (deconfined $U(1)$ gauge theories) with global symmetries. These spin liquids have an emergent gapless photon and emergent electric/magnetic excitations (which we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-23 Liujun Zou , Chong Wang , T. Senthil

Motivated by recent numerical studies reporting putative quantum paramagnetic behavior in spin-$1/2$ Heisenberg models on the maple-leaf lattice, we classify Abrikosov fermion mean-field Ans\"atze of fully symmetric $U(1)$ and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-12 Jonas Sonnenschein , Atanu Maity , Chunxiao Liu , Ronny Thomale , Francesco Ferrari , Yasir Iqbal

Electrons subjected to a strong spin-orbit coupling in two spatial dimensions could form fractional incompressible quantum liquids without violating the time-reversal symmetry. Here we construct a Lagrangian description of such fractional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-08-22 Predrag Nikolic

The algebraic spin liquid is a long-sought-after phase of matter characterized by the absence of quasiparticle excitations, a low-energy description in terms of emergent Dirac fermions and gauge fields interacting according to (2+1)D…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-20 Nikolai Zerf , Rufus Boyack , Peter Marquard , John A. Gracey , Joseph Maciejko

We study the transverse electrical conductivity and the corresponding magnetic noise of a two-dimensional U(1) spin liquid state with a spinon Fermi surface. We show that in the quasi-static regime these responses have the same wave-vector…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-21 Jun Yong Khoo , Falko Pientka , Patrick A. Lee , Inti Sodemann Villadiego

In this paper, we study the non-magnetic insulator state near Mott transition of 2D pi-flux Hubbard model on square lattice and find that such non-magnetic insulator state is quantum spin liquid state with nodal fermionic excitations -…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-13 Su-Peng Kou , Lan-Feng Liu , Jing He , Ya-Jie Wu

We study Gutzwiller-projected wavefunctions for triangular-lattice U(1) Dirac spin liquids in a Zeeman field, where we allow the U(1) gauge field to develop a gauge flux, resulting in (spin-split) spinon Landau levels. We find that at a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-22 Wen O. Wang , Urban F. P. Seifert , Oleg A. Starykh , Leon Balents