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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
卷 119, 期 9, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.091601
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- DOE [DE-FG02-03ER41260, DE-SC0013036]
- NSF [DMR-1410126]
- Boston University's Condensed Matter Theory Visitors program
- European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Materials Research [1410126] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
In a spontaneously dimerized quantum antiferromagnet, spin-1/2 excitations (spinons) are confined in pairs by strings akin to those confining quarks in non-Abelian gauge theories. The system has multiple degenerate ground states (vacua) and domain walls between regions of different vacua. For two vacua, we demonstrate that spinons on a domain wall are liberated, in a mechanism strikingly similar to domain-wall deconfinement of quarks in variants of quantum chromodynamics. This observation not only establishes a novel phenomenon in quantum magnetism, but also provides a new direct link between particle physics and condensed-matter physics. The analogy opens doors to improving our understanding of particle confinement and deconfinement by computational and experimental studies in quantum magnetism.
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