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Exact results for the star lattice chiral spin liquid

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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 81, Issue 10, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.104429

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  1. Science Foundation Ireland [05/YI2/I680]
  2. Principal Investigator Award [08/IN.1/I1961]
  3. Research Frontiers Programme Award [08/RFP/PHY1462]
  4. Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) [05/YI2/I680] Funding Source: Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)

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We examine the star lattice Kitaev model whose ground state is a chiral spin liquid. We fermionize the model such that the fermionic vacua are toric-code states on an effective Kagome lattice. This implies that the Abelian phase of the system is inherited from the fermionic vacua and that time-reversal symmetry is spontaneously broken at the level of the vacuum. In terms of these fermions we derive the Bloch-matrix Hamiltonians for the vortex-free sector and its time-reversed counterpart and illuminate the relationships between the sectors. The phase diagram for the model is shown to be a sphere in the space of coupling parameters around the triangles of the lattices. The Abelian phase lies inside the sphere and the critical boundary between topologically distinct Abelian and non-Abelian phases lies on the surface. Outside the sphere the system is generically gapped except in the planes where the coupling parameters between the vertices on triangles are zero. These cases correspond to bipartite lattice structures and the dispersion relations are similar to that of the original Kitaev honeycomb model. In a further analysis we demonstrate the threefold non-Abelian ground-state degeneracy on a torus by explicit calculation.

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