Absence of U(1) spin liquids in two dimensions

Details Absence of U(1) spin liquids in two dimensions Absence of U(1) spin liquids in two dimensions

2003-06-22

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0306537v2

Phys. Rev. B 68, 195110 (2003)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

15 pages; (v2) added references

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.68.195110

Many popular models of fractionalized spin liquids contain neutral fermionic spinon excitations on a Fermi surface, carrying unit charges under a compact U(1) gauge force. We argue that instanton effects generically render such states unstable to confinement in two spatial dimensions, so that all elementary excitations are gauge neutral, and there is no spinon Fermi surface. Similar results are expected to apply to SU(2) spin liquids. However, fractionalized states can appear when the gauge symmetry is broken down to a discrete subgroup by the Higgs mechanism. Our argument generalizes earlier results on confinement in the pure gauge theory, and on the instability of the U(1) staggered flux and algebraic spin liquids with a Dirac spectrum for fermionic spinons.

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