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Title: Chiral spin liquid with spinon Fermi surfaces in the spin-$$\frac{1}{2}$$ triangular Heisenberg model

Journal Article · · Physical Review. B
ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [3];  [2];  [4]
  1. Beihang University, Beijing (China)
  2. The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States)
  3. California State Univ., Northridge, CA (United States); Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
  4. California State Univ., Northridge, CA (United States)

Here, we study the interplay of competing interactions in spin-$$\frac{1}{2}$$ triangular Heisenberg model through tuning the first- ($$J_1$$), second- ($$J_2$$), and third-neighbor ($$J_ 3$$) couplings. Based on a large-scale density-matrix renormalization group calculation, we identify a quantum phase diagram of the system and discover a gapless chiral spin-liquid (CSL) phase in the intermediate $$J_2$$ and $$J_ 3$$ regime. This CSL state spontaneously breaks time-reversal symmetry with finite scalar chiral order, and it has gapless excitations implied by a vanishing spin triplet gap and a finite central charge on the cylinder. Moreover, the central charge grows rapidly with the cylinder circumference, indicating emergent spinon Fermi surfaces. To understand the numerical results we propose a parton mean-field spin-liquid state, the U(1) staggered flux state, which breaks time-reversal symmetry with chiral edge modes by adding a Chern insulator mass to Dirac spinons in the U(1) Dirac spin liquid. This state also breaks lattice rotational symmetries and possesses two spinon Fermi surfaces driven by nonzero $$J_2$$ and $$J_3$$, which naturally explains the numerical results. This realizes an example of a gapless CSL state with coexisting spinon Fermi surfaces and chiral edge states, demonstrating the rich family of interesting quantum phases emergent from competing interactions in triangular-lattice magnets.

Research Organization:
California State Univ. (CalState), Long Beach, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities; National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
FG02-06ER46305; 11874078; 11834014; DMR-1828019; DMR-1653769
OSTI ID:
1800369
Journal Information:
Physical Review. B, Vol. 100, Issue 24; ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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