Spin Hamiltonian for which the Chiral Spin Liquid is the Exact Ground State

Darrell F. Schroeter, Eliot Kapit, Ronny Thomale, Martin Greiter

Physical Review Letters · 2007 · 153 citations · 26 references

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Abstract

We construct a Hamiltonian that singles out the chiral spin liquid on a square lattice with periodic boundary conditions as the exact and, apart from the twofold topological degeneracy, unique ground state.

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