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We describe a new class of spin liquids with global SU(2) spin rotation symmetry in spin 1/2 systems on the triangular lattice, which have real Majorana fermion excitations carrying spin S = 1. The simplest translationally-invariant…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-06-30 Rudro R. Biswas , Liang Fu , Chris R. Laumann , Subir Sachdev

We propose a general approach to construct symmetry protected topological (SPT) states i.e the short-range entangled states with symmetry) in 2D spin/boson systems on lattice. In our approach, we fractionalize spins/bosons into different…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-24 Peng Ye , Xiao-Gang Wen

Recent experiments on the dipolar-octupolar pyrochlore compound Ce$_2$Zr$_2$O$_7$ indicate that it may realize a three-dimensional quantum spin liquid (QSL). In particular, the analyses of available data suggest that the system is in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-30 Félix Desrochers , Li Ern Chern , Yong Baek Kim

Previous investigations have suggested that the simplest spin-orbital model on the simplest frustrated lattice can host a nematic quantum spin-orbital liquid state. Namely, the orbital degeneracy of the SU(4) Kugel-Khomskii (KK) model tends…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-09 Chun Zhang , Hui-Ke Jin , Yi Zhou

While the existence of a chiral spin liquid (CSL) on a class of spin-1/2 kagome antiferromagnets is by now well-established numerically, a controlled theoretical path from the lattice model leading to a low energy topological field theory…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-01-06 Yin-Chen He , Subhro Bhattacharjee , Frank Pollmann , R. Moessner

We compute the momentum resolved dynamical spin structure factor $S(k,\omega)$ of the SU(4) Heisenberg model on the honeycomb lattice assuming the $\pi$-flux Dirac spin liquid ground state by two methods: (i) variationally using Gutzwiller…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-26 Dániel Vörös , Karlo Penc

In this paper, based on the formulation of an O(3) non-linear sigma model, we study the two-dimensional Pi-flux Hubbard model at half-filling. A quantum non-magnetic insulator is explored near the metal-insulator transition that may be a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-04-28 Gao-Yong Sun , Su-Peng Kou

Quantum spin liquids are topological states of matter that arise in frustrated quantum magnets at low temperatures. At low energies, such states exhibit emergent gauge fields and fractionalized quasiparticles and can also possess enhanced…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-20 Vir B. Bulchandani , Benjamin Hsu , Christopher P. Herzog , S. L. Sondhi

We explore spin-1/2 triangular antiferromagnets with both easy-plane and lattice exchange anisotropies by employing a dual vortex mapping followed by a fermionization of the vortices. Over a broad range of exchange anisotropy, this approach…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Jason Alicea , Olexei I. Motrunich , Matthew P. A. Fisher

A spin liquid is a novel quantum state of matter with no conventional order parameter where a finite charge gap exists even though the band theory would predict metallic behavior. Finding a stable spin liquid in two or higher spatial…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-12-20 Sandro Sorella , Yuichi Otsuka , Seiji Yunoki

The interplay between spin frustration and charge fluctuation gives rise to an exotic quantum state in the intermediate-interaction regime of the half-filled triangular-lattice Hubbard model, while the nature of the state is under debate.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-05 Bin-Bin Chen , Ziyu Chen , Shou-Shu Gong , D. N. Sheng , Wei Li , Andreas Weichselbaum

The ground state of a spin 1/2 nearest neighbor quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the pyrochlore lattice is investigated using a large $N$ SU(N) fermionic mean field theory. We find several mean field states, of which the state of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-07-13 F. J. Burnell , Shoibal Chakravarty , S. L. Sondhi

We propose a novel spin liquid state for a spin S=1 antiferromagnet in two dimensions. The ground state violates P and T, is a spin-singlet, and is fully invariant under the lattice symmetries. The spinon and holon excitations are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-06-09 Martin Greiter , Ronny Thomale

We study translationally invariant spin chains where each unit cell contains an $n$-state projective representation of a $\mathbb{Z}_n\times\mathbb{Z}_n$ internal symmetry, generalizing the spin-1/2 XYZ chain. Such spin chains possess a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-04 Yahya Alavirad , Maissam Barkeshli

Spin liquids are exotic quantum states characterized by the existence of fractional and deconfined quasiparticle excitations, referred to as spinons and visons. Their fractional nature establishes topological properties such as a protected…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-20 Jonas Sonnenschein , Johannes Reuther

We study quantum disordered ground states of the two dimensional Heisenberg-Kitaev model on the triangular lattice using a Schwinger boson approach. Our aim is to identify and characterize potential gapped quantum spin liquid phases that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-25 Pavel Kos , Matthias Punk

Quantum spin liquid (QSL) represents a new class of condensed matter states characterized by the long-range many-body entanglement of topological orders. The most prominent feature of the elusive QSL state is the existence of fractionalized…

We describe a coupled-chain construction for chiral spin liquids in two-dimensional spin systems. Starting from a one-dimensional zigzag spin chain and imposing SU(2) symmetry in the framework of non-Abelian bosonization, we first show that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-24 Gregory Gorohovsky , Rodrigo G. Pereira , Eran Sela

We present a fermionic gauge theory for deconfined quantum criticality on the Shastry-Sutherland lattice and reveal its shared low-energy field-theoretic structure with the square lattice. Starting from an SU(2) $\pi$-flux parent state, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-29 Andreas Feuerpfeil , Leyna Shackleton , Atanu Maity , Ronny Thomale , Subir Sachdev , Yasir Iqbal

The topological defects of Spin($n+1$) nematics in two spatial dimensions, known as disclinations, are characterized by the $\pi_1(\mathbb{R}P^n) = \textrm{Z}_2$ homotopy group for $n\ge2$. We argue that incompressible quantum liquids of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-18 Predrag Nikolić