Anisotropic deconfined criticality in Dirac spin liquids

Leyna Shackleton, Subir Sachdev

We analyze a Higgs transition from a U(1) Dirac spin liquid to a gapless ${\mathbb{Z}}_2$ spin liquid. This ${\mathbb{Z}}_2$ spin liquid is of relevance to the spin $S=1/2$ square latt…