A Z$_2$ spin-orbital liquid state in the square lattice Kugel-Khomskii model

Details A Z$_2$ spin-orbital liquid state in the square lattice Kugel-Khomskii model A Z$_2$ spin-orbital liquid state in the square lattice Kugel-Khomskii model

2008-06-10

arxiv.org/abs/0806.1743v2

Phys. Rev. B 80, 064413 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

9 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables, published version

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.80.064413

We argue for the existence of a liquid ground state in a class of square lattice models of orbitally degenerate insulators. Starting with the SU(4) symmetric Kugel-Khomskii model, we utilize a Majorana Fermion representation of spin-orbital operators to access novel phases. Variational wavefunctions of candidate liquid phases are thus obtained, whose properties are evaluated using Variational Monte Carlo. These states are disordered, and are found to have excellent energetics and ground state overlap ($>40%$) when compared with exact diagonalization on 16 site clusters. We conclude that these are spin-orbital liquid ground states with emergent nodal fermions and Z$_2$ gauge fields. Connections to spin 3/2 cold atom systems and properties in the absence of SU(4) symmetry are briefly discussed.

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