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Chiral Spin-orbital Liquids With Nodal Lines
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Physical Review Letters. Amer Physical Soc, v. 117, p. , 2016.
0031-9007
1079-7114
WOS:000378911900009
10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.017204
Autor
Natori
W. M. H.; Andrade
E. C.; Miranda
E.; Pereira
R. G.
Institución
Resumen
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) Strongly correlated materials with strong spin-orbit coupling hold promise for realizing topological phases with fractionalized excitations. Here, we propose a chiral spin-orbital liquid as a stable phase of a realistic model for heavy-element double perovskites. This spin liquid state has Majorana fermion excitations with a gapless spectrum characterized by nodal lines along the edges of the Brillouin zone. We show that the nodal lines are topological defects of a non-Abelian Berry connection and that the system exhibits dispersing surface states. We discuss some experimental signatures of this state and compare them with properties of the spin liquid candidate Ba2YMoO6. 117 1 Brazilian agency FAPESP Brazilian agency CNPq Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)