311 research outputs found
Model Realization and Numerical Studies of a Three-Dimensional Bosonic Topological Insulator and Symmetry-Enriched Topological Phases
We study a topological phase of interacting bosons in (3+1) dimensions which
is protected by charge conservation and time-reversal symmetry. We present an
explicit lattice model which realizes this phase and which can be studied in
sign-free Monte Carlo simulations. The idea behind our model is to bind bosons
to topological defects called hedgehogs. We determine the phase diagram of the
model and identify a phase where such bound states are proliferated. In this
phase we observe a Witten effect in the bulk whereby an external monopole binds
half of the elementary boson charge, which confirms that it is a bosonic
topological insulator. We also study the boundary between the topological
insulator and a trivial insulator. We find a surface phase diagram which
includes exotic superfluids, a topologically ordered phase, and a phase with a
Hall effect quantized to one-half of the value possible in a purely
two-dimensional system. We also present models that realize symmetry-enriched
topologically-ordered phases by binding multiple hedgehogs to each boson; these
phases show charge fractionalization and intrinsic topological order as well as
a fractional Witten effect.Comment: 26 pages, 16 figure
Nonmagnetic impurities in a S=(1/2) frustrated triangular antiferromagnet: Broadening of 13C NMR lines in κ-(ET)2Cu2(CN)3
We study effects of nonmagnetic impurities in a spin-1/2 frustrated triangular antiferromagnet with the aim of understanding the observed broadening of 13C NMR lines in the organic spin liquid material κ-(ET)2Cu2(CN)3. For high temperatures down to J/3, we calculate local susceptibility near a nonmagnetic impurity and near a grain boundary for the nearest-neighbor Heisenberg model in high-temperature series expansion. We find that the local susceptibility decays to the uniform one in few lattice spacings, and for a low density of impurities we would not be able to explain the line broadening present in the experiments already at elevated temperatures. At low temperatures, we assume a gapless spin liquid with a Fermi surface of spinons. We calculate the local susceptibility in the mean field and also go beyond the mean field by Gutzwiller projection. The zero-temperature local susceptibility decays as a power law and oscillates at 2kF. As in the high-temperature analysis we find that a low density of impurities is not able to explain the observed broadening of the lines. We are thus led to conclude that there is more disorder in the system. We find that a large density of pointlike disorder gives broadening that is consistent with the experiment down to about 5 K, but that below this temperature additional mechanism is likely needed
Origin of artificial electrodynamics in three-dimensional bosonic models
Several simple models of strongly correlated bosons on three-dimensional lattices have been shown to possess exotic fractionalized Mott insulating phases with a gapless "photon" excitation. In this paper we show how to view the physics of this "Coulomb" state in terms of the excitations of proximate superfluid. We argue for the presence of ordered vortex cores with a broken discrete symmetry in the nearby superfluid phase and that proliferating these degenerate but distinct vortices with equal amplitudes produces the Coulomb phase. This provides a simple physical description of the origin of the exotic excitations of the Coulomb state. The physical picture is formalized by means of a dual description of three-dimensional bosonic systems in terms of fluctuating quantum mechanical vortex loops. Such a dual formulation is extensively developed. It is shown how the Coulomb phase (as well as various other familiar phases) of three-dimensional bosonic systems may be described in this vortex loop theory. For bosons at half-filling and the closely related system of spin-1/2 quantum magnets on a cubic lattice, fractionalized phases as well as bond- or "box"-ordered states are possible. The latter are analyzed by an extension of techniques previously developed in two spatial dimensions. The relation between these "confining" phases with broken translational symmetry and the fractionalized Coulomb phase is exposed
Variational study of J_(1)-J_(2) Heisenberg model on kagome lattice using projected Schwinger-boson wave functions
Motivated by the unabating interest in the spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnetic model on the kagome lattice, we investigate the energetics of projected Schwinger-boson (SB) wave functions in the J_(1)-J_(2) model with antiferromagnetic J_(2) coupling. Our variational Monte Carlo results show that Sachdev’s Q_(1)=Q_(2) SB ansatz has a lower energy than the Dirac spin liquid for J_(2) ≳ 0.08J_(1) and the q=0 Jastrow-type magnetically ordered state. This work demonstrates that the projected SB wave functions can be tested on the same footing as their fermionic counterparts
Possible realization of the Exciton Bose Liquid phase in a hard-core boson model with ring-only exchange interactions
We investigate a hard-core boson model with ring-only exchanges on a square
lattice, where a term acts on 11 plaquettes and a term acts
on 12 and 21 plaquettes, with a goal of realizing a novel
Exciton Bose Liquid (EBL) phase first proposed by Paramekanti, et al [Phys.
Rev. B {\bf 66}, 054526 (2002)]. We construct Jastrow-type variational wave
functions for the EBL, study their formal properties, and then use them as
seeds for a projective Quantum Monte Carlo study. Using Green's Function Monte
Carlo, we obtain an unbiased phase diagram which at half-filling reveals CDW
for small , valence bond solid for intermediate , and possibly for
large the EBL phase. Away from half-filling, the EBL phase is present for
intermediate and remains stable for a range of densities below 1/2 before
phase separation occurs at lower densities.Comment: 18 pages, 15 figure
Study of a hard-core boson model with ring-only interactions
We present a Quantum Monte Carlo study of a hardcore boson model with
ring-only exchanges on a square lattice, where a term acts on 11
plaquettes and a term acts on 12 and 21 plaquettes. At
half-filling, the phase diagram reveals charge density wave for small ,
valence bond solid for intermediate , and possibly for large the
novel Exciton Bose Liquid (EBL) phase first proposed by Paramekanti, et
al[Phys. Rev. B {\bf 66}, 054526 (2002)]. Away from half-filling, the EBL phase
is present already for intermediate and remains stable for a range of
densities below 1/2 before phase separation sets in at lower densitiesComment: 4 page
Failure of Gutzwiller-type wave function to capture gauge fluctuations: Case study in the exciton Bose liquid context
Slave particle approaches are widely used in studies of exotic quantum phases. A complete description beyond mean field also contains dynamical gauge fields, while a simplified procedure considers Gutzwiller-projected trial states. We apply this in the context of bosonic models with ring exchanges realizing so-called exciton Bose liquid (EBL) phase and compare a Gutzwiller wave function against an accurate EBL wave function. We solve the parton-gauge theory and show that dynamical fluctuations of the spatial gauge fields are necessary for obtaining qualitatively accurate EBL description. On the contrary, just the Gutzwiller projection leads to a state with subtle differences in the long-wavelength properties, thus suggesting that Gutzwiller wave functions may generally fail to capture long-wavelength physics
Possible Exciton Bose Liquid in a Hard-Core Boson Ring Model
We present a quantum Monte Carlo study of a hard-core boson model with ring-only exchanges on a square lattice, where a K_1 term acts on 1×1 plaquettes and a K_2 term acts on 1×2 and 2×1 plaquettes. At half-filling, the phase diagram reveals charge density wave for small K_2, valence bond solid for intermediate K_2, and possibly for large K_2 the novel exciton Bose liquid (EBL) phase first proposed by Paramekanti et al [Phys. Rev. B 66, 054526 (2002)]. Away from half-filling, the EBL phase is present already for intermediate K_2 and remains stable for a range of densities below 1/2 before phase separation sets in at lower densities
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