• 文献标题:   Spin liquids in graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   TRAN MT, KIM KS
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   Asia Pacific Ctr Theoret Phys
  • 被引频次:   15
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.83.125416
  • 出版年:   2011

▎ 摘  要

We reveal that local interactions in graphene allow novel spin liquids between the semimetal and antiferromagnetic Mott insulating phases, identified with algebraic spin liquid and Z(2) spin liquid, respectively. We argue that the algebraic spin liquid can be regarded as the two-dimensional realization of one-dimensional spin dynamics, where antiferromagnetic correlations show exactly the same power-law dependence as valence bond correlations. The nature of the Z(2) spin liquid turns out to be d + id' singlet pairing, but time-reversal symmetry is preserved, taking d + id' in one valley and d - id' in the other valley. We propose the quantized thermal valley Hall effect as an essential feature of this gapped spin liquid state. Quantum phase transitions among the semimetal, algebraic spin liquid, and Z(2) spin liquid are shown to be continuous while the transition from the Z(2) spin liquid to the antiferromagnetic Mott insulator turns out to be first order. We emphasize that both algebraic spin liquid and d +/- id' Z(2) spin liquid can be verified by the quantum Monte Carlo simulation, showing the enhanced symmetry in the algebraic spin liquid and the quantized thermal valley Hall effect in the Z(2) spin liquid.