Spin liquid phase in a $S=1/2$ quantum magnet on the kagome lattice

Abstract

We study a model of hard-core bosons with short-range repulsive interactions at half-filling on the kagome lattice. Using quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) numerics, we find that this model shows a continuous superfluid to insulator quantum phase transition, with exponents $z=1$ and $\nu \approx 0.67(5)$. The insulator, $\cI^*$, exhibits short-ranged density and bond correlations, topological order and exponentially decaying spatial vison correlations, all of which point to a $Z_2$ fractionalized phase. We estimate the vison gap in $\cI^*$ from the temperature dependence of the energy. Our results, together with the equivalence between hard-core bosons and $S=1/2$ spins, provide compelling evidence for a spin-liquid phase in an easy-axis spin-1/2 model with no special conservation laws.

4 pages, 6 figures, published version

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