Doubled Chern-Simons theory of quantum spin liquids and...
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Doubled Chern-Simons theory of quantum spin liquids and their quantum phase transitions Talk online: sachdev.physics.harvard.edu
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Cenke Xu
arXiv:0809.0694
Yang Qi
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Antiferromagnet
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General approach
Look for spin liquids across continuous (or weakly first-order)
quantum transitions from antiferromagnetically ordered states
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Ground state has long-range Néel order
Square lattice antiferromagnet
H =!
!ij"
Jij!Si · !Sj
Order parameter is a single vector field !" = #i!Si
#i = ±1 on two sublattices!!"" #= 0 in Neel state.
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Destroy Neel order by perturbations which preserve full square lattice symmetry
Square lattice antiferromagnet
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Theory for loss of Neel order
Write the spin operator in terms ofSchwinger bosons (spinons) zi!, ! =!, ":
"Si = z†i!"#!"zi"
where "# are Pauli matrices, and the bosons obey the local con-straint !
!
z†i!zi! = 2S
E!ective theory for spinons must be invariant under the U(1) gaugetransformation
zi! # ei#zi!
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Perturbation theoryLow energy spinon theory for “quantum disordering” the Neel stateis the CP1 model
Sz =!
d2xd!
"c2 |(!x " iAx)z!|2 + |("" " iA" )z!|2 + s |z!|2
+ u#|z!|2
$2 +1
4e2(#µ#$"#A$)2
%
where Aµ is an emergent U(1) gauge field (the “photon”) whichdescribes low-lying spin-singlet excitations.
Phases:
#z!$ %= 0 & Neel (Higgs) state#z!$ = 0 & Spin liquid (Coulomb) state
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ssc
Spin liquid with a“photon” collective mode
Neel state!z!" #= 0
!z!" = 0
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ssc
Neel state!z!" #= 0
!z!" = 0
[Unstable to valence bond solid (VBS) order]
Spin liquid with a“photon” collective mode
N. Read and S. Sachdev, Phys. Rev. Lett. 62, 1694 (1989)
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A spin density wave with
!!Si" # (cos(K · ri, sin(K · ri))
and K = (", ").
From the square to the triangular lattice
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From the square to the triangular lattice
A spin density wave with
!!Si" # (cos(K · ri, sin(K · ri))
and K = (" + !, " + !).
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Interpretation of non-collinearity !
Its physical interpretation becomes clearfrom the allowed coupling to the spinons:
Sz,! =!
d2rd! ["!!#!"z!$xz" + c.c.]
! is a spinon pair field
N. Read and S. Sachdev, Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1773 (1991)
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ssc
Neel state!z!" #= 0
!z!" = 0
[Unstable to valence bond solid (VBS) order]
Spin liquid with a“photon” collective mode
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ssc
!z!" #= 0 , !!" #= 0non-collinear Neel state
!z!" = 0 , !!" #= 0
Z2 spin liquid with avison excitation
N. Read and S. Sachdev, Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1773 (1991)
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What is a vison ?
A vison is an Abrikosov vortex in the spinonpair field !.
In the Z2 spin liquid, the vison is S = 0quasiparticle with a finite energy gap
N. Read and S. Sachdev, Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1773 (1991)
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Z2 Spin liquid =
What is a vison ?
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=Z2 Spin liquid
What is a vison ?
-1
N. Read and B. Chakraborty, Phys. Rev. B 40, 7133 (1989)N. Read and S. Sachdev, Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1773 (1991)
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=Z2 Spin liquid
What is a vison ?
-1
N. Read and B. Chakraborty, Phys. Rev. B 40, 7133 (1989)N. Read and S. Sachdev, Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1773 (1991)
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=Z2 Spin liquid
What is a vison ?
-1
N. Read and B. Chakraborty, Phys. Rev. B 40, 7133 (1989)N. Read and S. Sachdev, Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1773 (1991)
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=Z2 Spin liquid
What is a vison ?
-1
N. Read and B. Chakraborty, Phys. Rev. B 40, 7133 (1989)N. Read and S. Sachdev, Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1773 (1991)
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=Z2 Spin liquid
What is a vison ?
-1
-1
N. Read and B. Chakraborty, Phys. Rev. B 40, 7133 (1989)N. Read and S. Sachdev, Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1773 (1991)
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=Z2 Spin liquid
What is a vison ?
-1
-1
N. Read and B. Chakraborty, Phys. Rev. B 40, 7133 (1989)N. Read and S. Sachdev, Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1773 (1991)
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Global phase diagram
sNeel state
[Unstable to valence bond solid (VBS) order]
Spin liquid with a“photon” collective mode
!z!" #= 0 , !!" #= 0non-collinear Neel state
!z!" = 0 , !!" #= 0
Z2 spin liquid with avison excitation
S. Sachdev and N. Read, Int. J. Mod. Phys B 5, 219 (1991), cond-mat/0402109
!z!" #= 0 , !!" = 0 !z!" = 0 , !!" = 0
!s
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A Simple Toy Model (A. Kitaev, 1997)
Spins Sα living on the links of a square lattice:
− Hence, Fp's and Ai's form a set of conserved quantities.
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A Simple Toy Model (A. Kitaev, 1997)
Spins Sα living on the links of a square lattice:
− Hence, Fp's and Ai's form a set of conserved quantities.
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A Simple Toy Model (A. Kitaev, 1997)
Spins Sα living on the links of a square lattice:
− Hence, Fp's and Ai's form a set of conserved quantities.
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A Simple Toy Model (A. Kitaev, 1997)
Spins Sα living on the links of a square lattice:
− Hence, Fp's and Ai's form a set of conserved quantities.
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A Simple Toy Model (A. Kitaev, 1997)
Spins Sα living on the links of a square lattice:
− Hence, Fp's and Ai's form a set of conserved quantities.
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A Simple Toy Model (A. Kitaev, 1997)
Spins Sα living on the links of a square lattice:
− Hence, Fp's and Ai's form a set of conserved quantities.
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A Simple Toy Model (A. Kitaev, 1997)
Spins Sα living on the links of a square lattice:
− Hence, Fp's and Ai's form a set of conserved quantities.
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A Simple Toy Model (A. Kitaev, 1997)
Spins Sα living on the links of a square lattice:
− Hence, Fp's and Ai's form a set of conserved quantities.
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A Simple Toy Model (A. Kitaev, 1997)
Spins Sα living on the links of a square lattice:
− Hence, Fp's and Ai's form a set of conserved quantities.
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A Simple Toy Model (A. Kitaev, 1997)
Spins Sα living on the links of a square lattice:
− Hence, Fp's and Ai's form a set of conserved quantities.
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A Simple Toy Model (A. Kitaev, 1997)
Spins Sα living on the links of a square lattice:
− Hence, Fp's and Ai's form a set of conserved quantities.
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Properties of the Ground State
Ground state: all Ai=1, Fp=1 Pictorial representation: color each link with an up-spin. Ai=1 : closed loops. Fp=1 : every plaquette is an equal-amplitude superposition of
inverse images.
The GS wavefunction takes the same value on configurationsconnected by these operations. It does not depend on the geometry of the configurations, only on their topology.
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Properties of Excitations
“Electric” particle, or Ai = –1 – endpoint of a line “Magnetic particle”, or vortex: Fp= –1 – a “flip” of this plaquette
changes the sign of a given term in the superposition. Charges and vortices interact via topological Aharonov-Bohm
interactions.
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Properties of Excitations
“Electric” particle, or Ai = –1 – endpoint of a line (a “spinon”) “Magnetic particle”, or vortex: Fp= –1 – a “flip” of this plaquette
changes the sign of a given term in the superposition. Charges and vortices interact via topological Aharonov-Bohm
interactions.
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Properties of Excitations
“Electric” particle, or Ai = –1 – endpoint of a line (a “spinon”) “Magnetic particle”, or vortex: Fp= –1 – a “flip” of this plaquette
changes the sign of a given term in the superposition (a “vison”). Charges and vortices interact via topological Aharonov-Bohm
interactions.
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Properties of Excitations
“Electric” particle, or Ai = –1 – endpoint of a line (a “spinon”) “Magnetic particle”, or vortex: Fp= –1 – a “flip” of this plaquette
changes the sign of a given term in the superposition (a “vison”). Charges and vortices interact via topological Aharonov-Bohm
interactions.
Spinons and visons are mutual semions
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Global phase diagram
sNeel state
[Unstable to valence bond solid (VBS) order]
Spin liquid with a“photon” collective mode
!z!" #= 0 , !!" #= 0non-collinear Neel state
!z!" = 0 , !!" #= 0
Z2 spin liquid with avison excitation
S. Sachdev and N. Read, Int. J. Mod. Phys B 5, 219 (1991), cond-mat/0402109
!z!" #= 0 , !!" = 0 !z!" = 0 , !!" = 0
!s
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Mutual Chern-Simons Theory
Express theory in terms of the physical excitations: the spinons,z!, and the visons. After accounting for Berry phase e!ects, thevisons can be described by a complex field v, which transformsnon-trivially under the square lattice space group operations.
The spinons and visons have mutual semionic statistics, and thisleads to the continuum theory:
S =!
d2xd!
"c2 |(!x " iAx)z!|2 + |("" " iA" )z!|2 + s |z!|2 + . . .
+ #c2 |(!x " iBx)v|2 + |("" " iB" )v|2 + #s |v|2 + . . .
+i
#$µ#$Bµ"#A$
$
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Mutual Chern-Simons Theory
S =!
d2xd!
"c2 |(!x " iAx)z!|2 + |("" " iA" )z!|2 + s |z!|2 + . . .
+ #c2 |(!x " iBx)v|2 + |("" " iB" )v|2 + #s |v|2 + . . .
+i
#$µ#$Bµ"#A$
$
This theory fully accounts for all the phases, includingtheir global topological properties and their broken sym-metries. It also completely describe the quantum phasetransitions between them.
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Global phase diagram
sNeel state
[Unstable to valence bond solid (VBS) order]
Spin liquid with a“photon” collective mode
non-collinear Neel state
Z2 spin liquid with avison excitation
!s
!z!" #= 0 , !v" #= 0
!z!" #= 0 , !v" = 0
!z!" = 0 , !v" #= 0
!z!" = 0 , !v" = 0
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Mutual Chern-Simons Theory
S =!
d2xd!
"c2 |(!x " iAx)z!|2 + |("" " iA" )z!|2 + s |z!|2 + . . .
+ #c2 |(!x " iBx)v|2 + |("" " iB" )v|2 + #s |v|2 + . . . +i
#$µ#$Bµ"#A$
$
Low energy states on a torus:
• Z2 spin liquid has a 4-fold degeneracy.
• Non-collinear Neel state has low-lying tower of states de-scribed by a broken symmetry with order parameter S3/Z2.
• “Photon” spin liquid has a low-lying tower of states describedby a broken symmetry with order parameter S1/Z2. This isthe VBS order ! v2.
• Neel state has a low-lying tower of states described by a bro-ken symmetry with order parameter S3"S1/(U(1)"U(1)) #S2. This is the usual vector Neel order.
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