2008/03/31 by Yang Qi, Cenke Xu · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Condensed Matter Physics #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #cond-mat.str-el
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevb.78.014410
published as Phys.Rev.B78:014410,2008 · 6 pages, 3 figures
openalex publication_date 2008/07/07 · arxiv created 2008/07/11 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We propose quantum phase transitions beyond the Landau's paradigm of Sp(4) spin Heisenberg models on the triangular and square lattices motivated by the exact Sp(4)\ensuremath≃SO(5) symmetry of spin-3/2 fermionic cold atomic system with only s-wave scattering. On the triangular lattice, we study a phase transition between the √(3)\ifmmode×\else\texttimes\fi√(3) spin ordered phase and a Z2 spin liquid phase; this phase transition is described by an O(8) sigma model in terms of fractionalized spinon fields, with significant anomalous scaling dimensions of spin order parameters. On the square lattice, we propose a deconfined critical point between the Neel order and the valence bond solid (VBS) order, which is described by the CP(3) model, and the monopole effect of the compact U(1) gauge field is expected to be suppressed at the critical point.