Fragility of the nematic spin liquid induced by diagonal couplings in the square-lattice SU(3) model

Xiao-Tian Zhang, Wen-Jun Hu, Elbio Dagotto +1

We present a large-scale density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) study of the spin-$1$ SU(3) bilinear-biquadratic model on the square lattice, which was suggested to host a nem…