Confinement-deconfinement transition in a generalized Kitaev model

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2009-03-23

arxiv.org/abs/0903.3785v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

v1 4 pages 4 figs

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We present a spin model, namely, the Kitaev model augmented by a loop term and perturbed by an Ising Hamiltonian and show that it exhibits both confinement-deconfinement transitions from spin liquid to antiferromagnetic/spin-chain/ferromagnetic phases and topological quantum phase transitions between gapped and gapless spin liquid phases. We develop a Fermionic mean-field theory to chart out the phase diagram of the model and estimate the stability of its spin liquid phases which might be relevant for attempts to realize the model in optical lattices. We also conjecture that some of the confinement-deconfinement transitions in the model, predicted to be first order within the mean-field theory, may become second order via a defect condensation mechanism.

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