2 papers
cond-mat.str-el2016
Coupled spin-1/2 ladders as microscopic models for non-Abelian chiral spin liquids
Po-Hao Huang, Jyong-Hao Chen, Adrain E. Feiguin +2
We construct a two-dimensional (2D) lattice model that is argued to realize a gapped chiral spin liquid with (Ising) non-Abelian topological order. The building blocks are spin-1/2…
cond-mat.str-el2016
Non-Abelian topological spin liquids from arrays of quantum wires or spin chains
Po-Hao Huang, Jyong-Hao Chen, Pedro R. S. Gomes +3
We construct two-dimensional non-Abelian topologically ordered states by strongly coupling arrays of one-dimensional quantum wires via interactions. In our scheme, all charge degre…