Exact chiral spin liquids and mean-field perturbations of gamma matrix models on the ruby lattice

We theoretically studied an exactly solvable gamma matrix generalization of the Kitaev spin model on the ruby lattice, which is a honeycomb lattice with ‘expanded’ vertices and links. We find that this model displays an exceptionally rich phase diagram that includes (i) gapless phases with stable sp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Seth Whitsitt, Victor Chua, Gregory A Fiete
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2012-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/14/11/115029