Quantum Electrodynamics in 2+1 Dimensions as the Organizing Principle of a Triangular Lattice Antiferromagnet
arxiv(2023)
摘要
Quantum electrodynamics in 2+1 dimensions (QED_3) has been proposed as a
critical field theory describing the low-energy effective theory of a putative
algebraic Dirac spin liquid or of quantum phase transitions in two-dimensional
frustrated magnets. We provide compelling evidence that the intricate spectrum
of excitations of the elementary but strongly frustrated J_1-J_2 Heisenberg
model on the triangular lattice is in one-to-one correspondence to a zoo of
excitations from QED_3, in the quantum spin liquid regime. This includes a
large manifold of explicitly constructed monopole and bilinear excitations of
QED_3, which is thus shown to serve as an organizing principle of phases of
matter in triangular lattice antiferromagnets and their low-lying excitations.
Moreover, we observe signatures of an emergent valence bond solid (VBS), which
suggests a scenario where only the critical point of a transition from the
120^∘ Néel order to a VBS is described by QED_3. Our results are
obtained by comparing ansatz wave functions from a parton construction to exact
eigenstates obtained using large-scale exact diagonalization up to N=48
sites.
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