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1 The Landscape of the Hubbard model HARVARD Talk online: sachdev.physics.harvard.edu Subir Sachdev Highly Frustrated Magnetism 2010 Johns Hopkins University August 1

2 The Hubbard Model Will study the honeycomb and square lattices.

3 1. Honeycomb lattice: semi-metal and antiferromagnetism Dirac fermions and the Gross-Neveu model 2. Spin liquids Unified formulation as a SO(4) gauge theory 3. Instabilities of spin liquids Geometric phases, valence bond solids, and other competing orders Outline

4 Cenke Xu Harvard UCSB Liang Fu Harvard Physical Review Letters 105, 057201 (2010) and to appear

5 Outline 1. Honeycomb lattice: semi-metal and antiferromagnetism Dirac fermions and the Gross-Neveu model 2. Spin liquids Unified formulation as a SO(4) gauge theory 3. Instabilities of spin liquids Geometric phases, valence bond solids, and other competing orders

6 The Hubbard Model

7 Graphene

8 Semi-metal with massless Dirac fermions Brilluoin zone

9 Graphene Dirac semi-metal Insulating antiferromagnet with Neel order

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15 Brilluoin zone

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19 Outline 1. Honeycomb lattice: semi-metal and antiferromagnetism Dirac fermions and the Gross-Neveu model 2. Spin liquids Unified formulation as a SO(4) gauge theory 3. Instabilities of spin liquids Geometric phases, valence bond solids, and other competing orders

20 Outline 1. Honeycomb lattice: semi-metal and antiferromagnetism Dirac fermions and the Gross-Neveu model 2. Spin liquids Unified formulation as a SO(4) gauge theory 3. Instabilities of spin liquids Geometric phases, valence bond solids, and other competing orders

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23 Quantum “disordering” magnetic order

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26 S. Sachdev, M. A. Metlitski, Y. Qi, and S. Sachdev Phys. Rev. B 80, 155129 (2009)

27 Quantum “disordering” magnetic order

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30 Projected fermion wavefunctions (Fisher, Wen, Lee, Kim,Senthil)

31 Projected fermion wavefunctions neutral fermionic spinons (Fisher, Wen, Lee, Kim,Senthil)

32 Projected fermion wavefunctions charged slave boson/rotor (Fisher, Wen, Lee, Kim,Senthil)

33 Projected fermion wavefunctions (Fisher, Wen, Lee, Kim,Senthil)

34 Projected fermion wavefunctions (Fisher, Wen, Lee, Kim,Senthil)

35 Projected fermion wavefunctions (Fisher, Wen, Lee, Kim,Senthil)

36 Unified spin liquid theory

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39 By breaking SO(4) gauge with different Higgs fields, we can reproduce essentially all earlier theories of spin liquids. We also find many new spin liquid phases, some with Majorana fermion excitations which carry neither spin nor charge

40 Quantum “disordering” magnetic order

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42 Phase diagram “Frustration”

43 Phase diagram “Frustration”

44 Phase diagram “Frustration” Semi-metal

45 Phase diagram “Frustration” Semi-metal Insulator with Neel order

46 Phase diagram “Frustration” Semi-metal Insulator with Neel order

47 Phase diagram “Frustration” Semi-metal Insulator with Neel order Spin liquid: CFT of SU(2) QCD with N f =4 massless Dirac quarks

48 Phase diagram “Frustration” Semi-metal Insulator with Neel order Spin liquid: CFT of SU(2) QCD with N f =4 massless Dirac quarks

49 Phase diagram “Frustration” Semi-metal Insulator with Neel order Spin liquid: CFT of SU(2) QCD with N f =4 massless Dirac quarks Confining insulator with VBS (kekule) order

50 Outline 1. Honeycomb lattice: semi-metal and antiferromagnetism Dirac fermions and the Gross-Neveu model 2. Spin liquids Unified formulation as a SO(4) gauge theory 3. Instabilities of spin liquids Geometric phases, valence bond solids, and other competing orders

51 Outline 1. Honeycomb lattice: semi-metal and antiferromagnetism Dirac fermions and the Gross-Neveu model 2. Spin liquids Unified formulation as a SO(4) gauge theory 3. Instabilities of spin liquids Geometric phases, valence bond solids, and other competing orders

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62 “Frustration” S=1/2 square lattice antiferromagnetic insulator

63 Phase diagram “Frustration” Semi-metal Insulator with Neel order Spin liquid: CFT of SU(2) QCD with N f =4 massless Dirac quarks Confining insulator with VBS (kekule) order

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