Anisotropic deconfined criticality in Dirac spin liquids
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| author | Shackleton, Leyna Sachdev, Subir |
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| contents | We analyze a Higgs transition from a U(1) Dirac spin liquid to a gapless $\mathbb{Z}_2$ spin liquid. This $\mathbb{Z}_2$ spin liquid is of relevance to the spin $S=1/2$ square lattice antiferromagnet, where recent numerical studies have given evidence for such a phase existing in the regime of high frustration between nearest neighbor and next-nearest neighbor antiferromagnetic interactions (the $J_1$-$J_2$ model), appearing in a parameter regime between the vanishing of Néel order and the onset of valence bond solid ordering. The proximate Dirac spin liquid is unstable to monopole proliferation on the square lattice, ultimately leading to Néel or valence bond solid ordering. As such, we conjecture that this Higgs transition describes the critical theory separating the gapless $\mathbb{Z}_2$ spin liquid of the $J_1$-$J_2$ model from one of the two proximate ordered phases. The transition into the other ordered phase can be described in a unified manner via a transition into an unstable SU(2) spin liquid, which we have analyzed in prior work. By studying the deconfined critical theory separating the U(1) Dirac spin liquid from the gapless $\mathbb{Z}_2$ spin liquid in a $1/N_f$ expansion, with $N_f$ proportional to the number of fermions, we find a stable fixed point with an anisotropic spinon dispersion and a dynamical critical exponent $z \neq 1$. We analyze the consequences of this anisotropic dispersion by calculating the angular profiles of the equal-time Néel and valence bond solid correlation functions, and we find them to be distinct. We also note the influence of the anisotropy on the scaling dimension of monopoles. |
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| spellingShingle | Anisotropic deconfined criticality in Dirac spin liquids Shackleton, Leyna Sachdev, Subir Strongly Correlated Electrons High Energy Physics - Theory We analyze a Higgs transition from a U(1) Dirac spin liquid to a gapless $\mathbb{Z}_2$ spin liquid. This $\mathbb{Z}_2$ spin liquid is of relevance to the spin $S=1/2$ square lattice antiferromagnet, where recent numerical studies have given evidence for such a phase existing in the regime of high frustration between nearest neighbor and next-nearest neighbor antiferromagnetic interactions (the $J_1$-$J_2$ model), appearing in a parameter regime between the vanishing of Néel order and the onset of valence bond solid ordering. The proximate Dirac spin liquid is unstable to monopole proliferation on the square lattice, ultimately leading to Néel or valence bond solid ordering. As such, we conjecture that this Higgs transition describes the critical theory separating the gapless $\mathbb{Z}_2$ spin liquid of the $J_1$-$J_2$ model from one of the two proximate ordered phases. The transition into the other ordered phase can be described in a unified manner via a transition into an unstable SU(2) spin liquid, which we have analyzed in prior work. By studying the deconfined critical theory separating the U(1) Dirac spin liquid from the gapless $\mathbb{Z}_2$ spin liquid in a $1/N_f$ expansion, with $N_f$ proportional to the number of fermions, we find a stable fixed point with an anisotropic spinon dispersion and a dynamical critical exponent $z \neq 1$. We analyze the consequences of this anisotropic dispersion by calculating the angular profiles of the equal-time Néel and valence bond solid correlation functions, and we find them to be distinct. We also note the influence of the anisotropy on the scaling dimension of monopoles. |
| title | Anisotropic deconfined criticality in Dirac spin liquids |
| topic | Strongly Correlated Electrons High Energy Physics - Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.01962 |