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Beyond the freshman?s dream: Classical fractal spin liquids from matrix cellular automata in three-dimensional lattice models

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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
卷 105, 期 22, 页码 -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.105.224410

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  1. European Research Council under the European Union [804213-TMCS]

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The study investigates models hosting fractal spin liquids on realistic 3D lattices, revealing differences in fractal structures and the use of matrix cellular automata compared to traditional models. By constructing low-energy excitations and conducting simulations, it is found that these excitations exhibit a logarithmic increase in energetic barriers with system size, leading to a "fragile" glassy dynamics.
We construct models hosting classical fractal spin liquids on two realistic three-dimensional (3D) lattices of corner-sharing triangles: trillium and hyperhyperkagome (HHK). Both models involve the same form of three spin Ising interactions on triangular plaquettes as the Newman-Moore (NM) model on the 2D triangular lattice. However, in contrast to the NM model and its 3D generalizations, their degenerate ground states and low-lying excitations cannot be described in terms of scalar cellular automata (CA), because the corresponding fractal structures lack a simplifying algebraic property, often termed the ???freshman???s dream.??? By identifying a link to matrix CAs???that makes essential use of the crystallographic structure???we show that both models exhibit fractal symmetries of a distinct class to the NM-type models. We devise a procedure to explicitly construct low-energy excitations consisting of finite sets of immobile defects or ???fractons,??? by flipping arbitrarily large self-similar subsets of spins, whose fractal dimensions we compute analytically. We show that these excitations are associated with energetic barriers which increase logarithmically with system size, leading to ???fragile??? glassy dynamics, whose existence we confirm via classical Monte Carlo simulations. We also discuss consequences for spontaneous fractal symmetry breaking when quantum fluctuations are introduced by a transverse magnetic field, and propose multispin correlation function diagnostics for such transitions. Our findings suggest that matrix CAs may provide a fruitful route to identifying fractal symmetries and fractonlike behavior in lattice models, with possible implications for the study of fracton topological order.

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