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Condensed Matter > Strongly Correlated Electrons

Title: The dynamical structure factor of the SU(4) algebraic spin liquid on the honeycomb lattice

Abstract: We compute the momentum resolved dynamical spin structure factor $S(k,\omega)$ of the SU(4) Heisenberg model on the honeycomb lattice assuming the $\pi$-flux Dirac spin liquid ground state by two methods: (i) variationally using Gutzwiller projected particle-hole excitations of the $\pi$-flux Fermi sea and (ii) in the non-interacting parton mean-field picture. The two approaches produce qualitatively similar results. Based on this analogy, we argue that the energy spectrum of the projected excitations is a gapless continuum of fractional excitations. Quantitatively, the Gutzwiller projection shifts the weight from higher to lower energies, thus emphasizing the lower edge of the continuum. In the mean-field approach, we obtained the $1/\text{distance}^4$ decay of the spin correlation function, and the local correlations show $S^{33}_{\text{MF}}(\omega)\propto \omega^3$ behavior.
Comments: 9 pages, 6 figures
Subjects: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
Cite as: arXiv:2306.16242 [cond-mat.str-el]
  (or arXiv:2306.16242v2 [cond-mat.str-el] for this version)

Submission history

From: Dániel Vörös [view email]
[v1] Mon, 26 Jun 2023 14:40:02 GMT (824kb,D)
[v2] Sun, 24 Mar 2024 17:57:48 GMT (856kb,D)

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