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Hidden SU(2) Symmetries, the Symmetry Hierarchy and the Emergent Eight-Fold Way in Spin-1 Quantum Magnets

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题目:Hidden SU(2) Symmetries, the Symmetry Hierarchy and the Emergent Eight-Fold Way in Spin-1 Quantum Magnets

报告人:周毅 研究员

        中国科学院物理研究所

时间:2019517日(星期五)上午10:00

地点:国家脉冲强磁场科学中心B206


报告摘要:

The largest allowed symmetry in a spin-1 quantum system is an SU(3) symmetry rather than the SO(3) spin rotation. We reveal some SU(2) symmetries as subgroups of SU(3) that, to the best of our knowledge, have not previously been recognized. Then, we construct SU(2) symmetric Hamiltonians and explore the ground-state phase diagram in accordance with the SU(3)⊃SU(2)x(1) symmetry hierarchy. It is natural to treat the eight generators of the SU(3) symmetry on an equal footing; this approach is called the eight-fold way. We find that the spin spectral functions and spin quadrupole spectral functions share the same structure,provided that the elementary excitations are flavor waves at low energies,which serves as a clue to the eight-fold way. An emergent S=l/2 gapless quantum spin liquid is found to coexist with spin nematic order in one of the ground states.

参考文献:

Hui-Kc Jin, Jian-Jian Miao, Yi Zhou, arXiv: 1811.0047 (2018)


报告人简介:

周毅,中国科学院物理研究所研究员。1998年本科毕业于清华大学物理系,20041月在清华大学高等研究院获得博士学位。曾在德国马克斯-普朗克-物理中的复杂系统研究所(德累斯顿)、香港科技大学、香港大学、香港中文大学做博士后研究。2009年至20192月在浙江大学任特聘研究员、教授,20193月至今任中国科学院物理研究所研究员。主要从事理论凝聚态物理的研究,涉及超导、磁性、电子关联系统和拓扑系统,已发表论文50余篇。在量子自旋液体、拓扑系统、新型超导理论等方面取得有影响的成果,曾应邀为Nature PhysicsReviews of Modern Physics撰写评论与综述文章。