Exact Chiral Spin Liquid with Stable Spin Fermi Surface on the Kagome Lattice

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Abstract

We study an exactly solvable quantum spin model of Kitaev type on the kagome lattice. We find a rich phase diagram which includes a topological (gapped) chiral spin liquid with gapless chiral edge states, and a gapless chiral spin liquid phase with a spin Fermi surface. The ground state of the current model contains an odd number of electrons per unit cell which qualitatively distinguishes it from previously studied exactly solvable models with a spin Fermi surface. Moreover, we show that the spin Fermi surface is stable against weak perturbations.

*This work is supported in part by NSF grant DMR-0955778 (VC and GAF) at Austin and DOE grant DE-AC02- 05CH11231 (HY) at Berkeley.

Authors

  • Victor Chua

    • Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin
  • Hong Yao

    • Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California
  • Gregory Fiete

    • Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin