Chiral spin liquid phase of the triangular lattice Hubbard model: a density matrix renormalization group study

A Szasz, J Motruk, MP Zaletel, JE Moore - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
Physical Review X, 2020APS
Motivated by experimental studies that have found signatures of a quantum spin liquid
phase in organic crystals whose structure is well described by the two-dimensional
triangular lattice, we study the Hubbard model on this lattice at half filling using the infinite-
system density matrix renormalization group (iDMRG) method. On infinite cylinders with
finite circumference, we identify an intermediate phase between observed metallic behavior
at low interaction strength and Mott insulating spin-ordered behavior at strong interactions …
Motivated by experimental studies that have found signatures of a quantum spin liquid phase in organic crystals whose structure is well described by the two-dimensional triangular lattice, we study the Hubbard model on this lattice at half filling using the infinite-system density matrix renormalization group (iDMRG) method. On infinite cylinders with finite circumference, we identify an intermediate phase between observed metallic behavior at low interaction strength and Mott insulating spin-ordered behavior at strong interactions. Chiral ordering from spontaneous breaking of time-reversal symmetry, a fractionally quantized spin Hall response, and characteristic level statistics in the entanglement spectrum in the intermediate phase provide strong evidence for the existence of a chiral spin liquid in the full two-dimensional limit of the model.
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