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对称性保护的无间隙$Z_2$自旋液体

Symmetry protected gapless $Z_2$ spin liquids

Yuan-Ming Lu

摘要:

尽管在理解带隙拓扑态方面取得了快速进展,但对物质的无隙拓扑相,特别是强关联电子的无隙拓扑相知之甚少。在这项工作中,我们讨论了一类强大的无隙量子自旋液体的受抑磁铁的半整数自旋,这是描述的无隙费米自旋耦合到动态$Z_2$规范场。在要求$U(1)$自旋守恒、时间反演和一定的空间群对称性的条件下,我们证明了一定的自旋对称性分数化类必然导致无带隙谱。只要保持所需的对称性,这些无隙激发对任何扰动都是稳定的。将这些无隙准则应用于正方形、三角形和kagome格点上的自旋二分之一系统,我们证明了所有在Abrikosov-fermion表象中的有隙对称$Z_2$自旋液体也可以在Schwinger-boson表象中实现.这导致正方晶格上有64个带隙的$Z_2$自旋液体,在kagome和三角晶格上都有8个带隙的状态。

英文摘要:

Despite rapid progress in understanding gapped topological states, much less is known about gapless topological phases of matter, especially in strongly correlated electrons. In this work we discuss a large class of robust gapless quantum spin liquids in frustrated magnets made of half-integer spins, which are described by gapless fermionic spinons coupled to dynamical $Z_2$ gauge fields. Requiring $U(1)$ spin conservation, time reversal and certain space group symmetries, we show that certain spinon symmetry fractionalization class necessarily leads to a gapless spectrum. These gapless excitations are stable against any perturbations, as long as the required symmetries are preserved. Applying these gapless criteria to spin one-half systems on square, triangular and kagome lattices, we show that all gapped symmetric $Z_2$ spin liquids in Abrikosov-fermion representation can also be realized in Schwinger-boson representation. This leads to 64 gapped $Z_2$ spin liquids on square lattice, and 8 gapped states on both kagome and triangular lattices.

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