From the SU (2) quantum link model on the honeycomb lattice to the quantum dimer model on the kagome lattice: Phase transition and fractionalized flux strings

Banerjee, Debasish; Jiang, Fu-Jiun; Olesen, Therkel Andreas Zøllner; Orland, P.; Wiese, Uwe-Jens (2018). From the SU (2) quantum link model on the honeycomb lattice to the quantum dimer model on the kagome lattice: Phase transition and fractionalized flux strings. Physical review. B - condensed matter and materials physics, 97(20) American Physical Society 10.1103/PhysRevB.97.205108

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We consider the (2+1)-dimensional SU(2) quantum link model on the honeycomb lattice and show that it is equivalent to a quantum dimer model on the kagome lattice. The model has crystalline confined phases with spontaneously broken translation invariance associated with pinwheel order, which is investigated with either a Metropolis or an efficient cluster algorithm. External half-integer non-Abelian charges [which transform nontrivially under the Z(2) center of the SU(2) gauge group] are confined to each other by fractionalized strings with a delocalized Z(2) flux. The strands of the fractionalized flux strings are domain walls that separate distinct pinwheel phases. A second-order phase transition in the three-dimensional Ising universality class separates two confining phases: one with correlated pinwheel orientations, and the other with uncorrelated pinwheel orientations.

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