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arxiv: 1607.05227 · v2 · pith:7XSN2P3Qnew · submitted 2016-07-18 · ❄️ cond-mat.quant-gas

Stabilization of the chiral phase of the SU(6m) Heisenberg model on the honeycomb lattice with m particles per site for m larger than 1

classification ❄️ cond-mat.quant-gas
keywords chiralsitestatebeengroundheisenberghoneycomblattice
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We show that, when $N$ is a multiple of 6 ($N=6m$, $m$ integer), the \SU{N} Heisenberg model on the honeycomb lattice with $m$ particles per site has a clear tendency toward chiral order as soon as $m\geq 2$. This conclusion has been reached by a systematic variational Monte Carlo investigation of Gutzwiller projected wave-functions as a function of $m$ between the case of one particle per site ($m=1$), for which the ground state has recently been shown to be in a plaquette singlet state, and the $m\rightarrow \infty$ limit, where a mean-field approach has established that the ground state has chiral order. This demonstrates that the chiral phase can indeed be stabilized for not too large values of $m$, opening the way to its experimental realisations in other lattices.

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