Investigation of the chiral antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model using PEPS

Abstract

A simple spin-$1/2$ frustrated antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model (AFHM) on the square lattice - including chiral plaquette cyclic terms - was argued [Anne E.B. Nielsen, German Sierra and J. Ignacio Cirac, Nature Communications $4$, 2864 (2013)] to host a bosonic Kalmeyer-Laughlin (KL) fractional quantum Hall ground state [V. Kalmeyer and R. B. Laughlin, Phys. Rev. Lett. $59$, 2095 (1987)]. Here, we construct generic families of chiral projected entangled pair states (chiral PEPS) with low bond dimension ($D=3,4,5$) which, upon optimization, provide better variational energies than the KL ansatz. The optimal $D=3$ PEPS exhibits chiral edge modes described by the Wess-Zumino-Witten $SU(2{)}_1$ model, as expected for the KL spin liquid. However, we find evidence that, in contrast to the KL state, the PEPS spin liquids have power-law dimer-dimer correlations and exhibit a gossamer long-range tail in the spin-spin correlations. We conjecture that these features are genuine to local chiral AFHM on bipartite lattices.

arXiv comment6 pages, 5 figures, Phys. Rev. B Rapid Com. (in press)

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