Emergent gauge dynamics of highly frustrated magnets

DOI10.1088/1367-2630/15/4/043043MaRDI QIDQ5141471zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael J. Lawler

Publication date 18 December 2020

Published in New Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.0721

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22)

Abstract: Condensed matter exhibits a wide variety of exotic emergent phenomena such as the fractional quantum Hall effect and the low temperature cooperative behavior of highly frustrated magnets. I consider the classical Hamiltonian dynamics of spins of the latter phenomena using a method introduced by Dirac in the 1950s by assuming they are constrained to their lowest energy configurations as a simplifying measure. Focusing on the kagome antiferromagnet as an example, I find it is a gauge system with topological dynamics and non-locally connected edge states for certain open boundary conditions similar to doubled Chern-Simons electrodynamics expected of a $Z_2$ spin liquid. These dynamics are also similar to electrons in the fractional quantum Hall effect. The classical theory presented here is a first step towards a controlled semi-classical description of the spin liquid phases of many pyrochlore and kagome antiferromagnets and towards a description of the low energy classical dynamics of the corresponding unconstrained Heisenberg models.

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