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SUBMITTER: Jin HK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9250503 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jin Hui-Ke HK Natori W M H WMH Pollmann F F Knolle J J
Nature communications 20220702 1
The S=3/2 Kitaev honeycomb model (KHM) is a quantum spin liquid (QSL) state coupled to a static Z<sub>2</sub> gauge field. Employing an SO(6) Majorana representation of spin3/2's, we find an exact representation of the conserved plaquette fluxes in terms of static Z<sub>2</sub> gauge fields akin to the S=1/2 KHM which enables us to treat the remaining interacting matter fermion sector in a parton mean-field theory. We uncover a ground-state phase diagram consisting of gapped and gapless QSLs. Ou ...[more]