Published November 11, 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

Anyonic loops in three-dimensional spin liquid and chiral spin liquid

  • 1. Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PO Box 2735, Beijing 100190 (China)

Description

We established a large class of exactly soluble spin liquids and chiral spin liquids on three-dimensional helix lattices by introducing Kitaev-type's spin coupling. In the chiral spin liquids, exact stable ground states with spontaneous breaking of the time reversal symmetry are found. The fractionalized loop excitations in both the spin and chiral spin liquids obey non-Abelian statistics. We characterize this kind of statistics by non-Abelian Berry phase and quantum algebra relation. The topological correlation of loops is independent of local order parameter and it measures the intrinsic global quantum entanglement of degenerate ground states

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Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2008.06.009

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DOI
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2008.06.009;
arXiv
arXiv:0712.4231v3;
PII
S0550-3213(08)00340-4;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B
Journal Volume
803
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 428-449
ISSN
0550-3213
CODEN
NUPBBO

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