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A spin supersolid is characterized by the simultaneous breaking of lattice translation and continuous spin rotation symmetries. In this work, we study a spin-1 model with $U(2)\cong SU(2)\times U(1)/Z_2$ symmetry on the triangular lattice,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-08 Si-Cheng Wang , Zheng-Xin Liu

The SU(4) Heisenberg model can serve as a low energy model of the Mott insulating state in materials where the spins and orbitals are highly symmetric, or in systems of alkaline-earth atoms on optical lattice. Recently, it has been argued…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-06-28 Miklos Lajko , Karlo Penc

Recent numerical studies of the $J_1$-$J_2$ model on a square lattice suggest a possible continuous phase transition between the N\'eel state and a gapped spin-liquid state with Z$_2$ topological order. We show that such a phase transition…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-06-23 Yang Qi , Zheng-Cheng Gu

Spin-orbital entanglement in the ground state of a one-dimensional SU(2)$\otimes$SU(2) spin-orbital model is analyzed using exact diagonalization of finite chains. For $S=1/2$ spins and $T=1/2$ pseudospins one finds that the quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-06-19 Andrzej M. Oles , Peter Horsch , Giniyat Khaliullin

Motivated by the absence of both spin freezing and a cooperative Jahn-Teller effect at the lowest measured temperatures, we study the ground state of Ba3CuSb2O9. We solve a general spin-orbital model on both the honeycomb and the decorated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-02 Andrew Smerald , Frederic Mila

Motivated by the recent synthesis of $\beta$-Li$_2$IrO$_3$ -- a spin-orbit entangled $j=1/2$ Mott insulator with a three-dimensional lattice structure of the Ir$^{4+}$ ions -- we consider generalizations of the Kitaev model believed to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-06-03 M. Hermanns , S. Trebst

Cold atoms bring new opportunities to study quantum magnetism, and in particular, to simulate quantum magnets with symmetry greater than $SU(2)$. Here we explore the topological excitations which arise in a model of cold atoms on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-29 Hiroaki T. Ueda , Yutaka Akagi , Nic Shannon

We have modeled magneto-dielectric phase transitions in ABX$_3$-type layered triangular lattice compounds. The model consists of a spin system (magnetic transition) and a lattice system (dielectric transition). Magnetic exchange…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Takashi Shirahata , Tota Nakamura

This article consider a situation of SU(N) system with broken symmetry, and therefore the spin-liquid phase is exist in the phase transition stage. And explore the antiferromagnetic spin interaction with long range order in a two dimension…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-18 Chenhuan Wu

Motivated by recent advances in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) moir\'e materials, we propose TMD moir\'e multilayers as a platform for realizing an approximately SU(4)-symmetric triangular Kondo lattice, generalizing the concept of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-19 Sunghoon Kim

The triangular lattice of S=1/2 spins with XXZ anisotropy is a ubiquitous model for various frustrated systems in different contexts. We determine the quantum phase diagram of the model in the plane of the anisotropy parameter and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-04-04 Daisuke Yamamoto , Giacomo Marmorini , Ippei Danshita

Four-spin exchange interaction has been raising intriguing questions regarding the exotic phase transitions it induces in two-dimensional quantum spin systems. In this context, we investigate the effects of a cyclic four-spin exchange in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-08-21 S. Capponi , P. Lecheminant , M. Moliner

We study the $S=1/2$ Heisenberg model on the triangular lattice with nearest neighbor interaction $J_1$ and next nearest neighbor interaction $J_2$ with the density matrix renormalization group. We are able to study long open cylinders with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-08 Zhenyue Zhu , Steven R. White

We use coherent states as trial states for a variational approach to study a system of a finite number of three-level atoms interacting in a dipolar approximation with a one-mode electromagnetic field. The atoms are treated as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-20 L. F. Quezada , E. Nahmad-Achar

We show that the highly frustrated transverse-field Ising model on the three-dimensional pyrochlore lattice realizes a first-order phase transition without symmetry breaking between the low-field Coulomb quantum spin liquid and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-23 J. Roechner , L. Balents , K. P. Schmidt

Quantum loop and dimer models are prototypical correlated systems with local constraints, which are not only intimately connected to lattice gauge theories and topological orders but are also widely applicable to the broad research areas of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-01 Xiaoxue Ran , Zheng Yan , Yan-Cheng Wang , Rhine Samajdar , Junchen Rong , Subir Sachdev , Yang Qi , Zi Yang Meng

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are long-range entangled phases of frustrated magnets exhibiting fractionalized spin excitations. In two dimensions, there is limited analytical understanding of their excitation spectra beyond parton mean-field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-01 Josef Willsher , Johannes Knolle

We investigate thermal phase transitions to a valence-bond solid phase in SU(N) Heisenberg models with four- or six-body interactions on a square or honeycomb lattice, respectively. In both cases, a thermal phase transition occurs that is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-26 Takafumi Suzuki , Kenji Harada , Haruhiko Matsuo , Synge Todo , Naoki Kawashima

We investigate the spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ nearest-neighber Heisenberg model with the four-site ring-exchange $J_4$ and chiral interaction $J_\chi$ on the triangular lattice by using the variational Monte Carlo method. The $J_4$ term induces the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-16 Li-Wei He , Jian-Xin Li

The SU(4)-symmetric spin-orbital model on the honeycomb lattice was recently studied in connection to correlated insulators such as the $e_{g}$ Mott insulator Ba$_{3}$CuSb$_{2}$O$_{9}$ and the insulating phase of magic-angle twisted bilayer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-27 W. M. H. Natori , R. Nutakki , R. G. Pereira , E. C. Andrade