Monopole hierarchy at a quantum critical point between a Dirac spin liquid and an antiferromagnet

ORAL

Abstract


Certain frustrated 2D quantum magnets may be described at low energy by a Dirac spin liquid (DSL) which is a version of quantum electrodynamics with 2N flavors of two-component gapless Dirac spinons. A DSL also hosts monopole excitations that drive the confinement of the spinons. We revisit the hierarchy among monopole operators with different quantum numbers at the quantum critical point (QCP) between a DSL and an antiferromagnet. We describe the organization of monopoles in multiplets of the QCP flavor symmetry group SU(2) x SU(N). The scaling dimension in each magnetic spin sector is obtained at leading order in N using the state-operator correspondence. We also discuss 1/N corrections to the scaling dimension of monopoles at a critical point between a DSL and a chiral spin liquid.

*É.D. is funded by an Alexander Graham Bell CGS from NSERC. W.W.-K. is funded by a Discovery Grant from NSERC, a Canada Research Chair, a grant from the Fondation Courtois, and a “Établissement de nouveaux chercheurs et de nouvelles chercheuses universitaires” grant from FRQNT.

Presenters

  • Eric Dupuis

    • Universite de Montreal

Authors

  • Eric Dupuis

    • Universite de Montreal
  • William Witczak-Krempa

    • Universite de Montreal
    • physics, Université de Montréal
    • Université de Montréal