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Lattice spin models for non-Abelian Chiral Spin Liquids

arXiv:1608.05977 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.95.140406

Abstract

We suggest a class of two-dimensional lattice spin Hamiltonians describing non-Abelian SU(2) chiral spin liquids - spin-analogues of fractional non-Abelian quantum Hall states- with gapped bulk and gapless chiral edge excitations described by the SU(2) Wess-Zumino-Novikov-Witten conformal field theory. The models are constructed from an array of a generalized spin- ladders with multi-spin exchange interaction which are coupled by isolated spins. Such models allow a controllable analytic treatment starting from the one-dimensional limit and are characterized by a bulk gap and non-Abelian SU(2) gapless edge excitations.

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