Topological chiral spin liquids and competing states in triangular lattice <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mi>SU</mml:mi><mml:mo>(</mml:mo><mml:mi>N</mml:mi><mml:mo>)</mml:mo></mml:math> Mott insulators
Xu-Ping Yao, Yonghao Gao, Gang Chen
Abstract
The authors study the SU($N$) Heisenberg antiferromagnets on the triangular lattice in the large-$N$ limit and show that under the strict local constraints, the system favors topological chiral spin liquids when $N$>5.
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Hexagonal latticeLattice (music)PhysicsTopology (electrical circuits)CombinatoricsCondensed matter physicsMathematicsAntiferromagnetismAcousticsAdvanced Condensed Matter PhysicsQuantum many-body systemsPhysics of Superconductivity and Magnetism