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量子自旋液体产生的隐相:对烧绿石自旋冰的应用

Hidden phases born of a quantum spin liquid: Application to pyrochlore spin ice

Hyeok-Jun Yang, Nic Shannon, SungBin Lee

摘要:

量子自旋液体(QSL)作为具有涌现规范结构和分形激发的物质相,引起了人们的极大兴趣。在这种背景下,QSL的相变已经被广泛讨论,因为Higgs从格点规范理论的非限定相到限定相的转变。然而,在这两个极限之间出现更广泛的新相的可能性还有待系统地探索。在这封信中,我们开发了一种形式主义,它允许来自物理希尔伯特空间上的约束的分数准粒子之间的相互作用,并可用于搜索异国情调,隐藏的阶段。以烧绿石自旋冰为出发点,我们证明了U(1)QSL如何在不需要微调参数的情况下产生丰富的子相。这些包括(带电-)$\mathbb{Z}_2$ QSL和超固体。我们讨论了实验的影响,并支持我们的分析的数值结果。这些结果与部分子描述下的QSL具有广泛的相关性,并为寻找量子磁体中的奇异隐相提供了一个新的视角。

英文摘要:

Quantum spin liquids (QSL) have generated considerable excitement as phases of matter with emergent gauge structures and fractionalized excitations. In this context, phase transitions out of QSLs have been widely discussed as Higgs transitions from deconfined to confined phases of a lattice gauge theory. However the possibility of a wider range of novel phases, occuring between these two limits, has yet to be systematically explored. In this Letter, we develop a formalism which allows for interactions between fractionalised quasiparticles coming from the constraint on the physical Hilbert space, and can be used to search for exotic, hidden phases. Taking pyrochlore spin ice as a starting point, we show how a U(1) QSL can give birth to abundant daughter phases, without need for fine--tuning of parameters. These include a (charged--) $\mathbb{Z}_2$ QSL, and a supersolid. We discuss implications for experiment, and numerical results which support our analysis. These results are of broad relevance to QSL subject to a parton description, and offer a new perspective for searching exotic hidden phases in quantum magnets.

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