Symmetry fractionalization of visons in Z2 spin liquids
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Abstract
In this work we study symmetry fractionalization of vison excitations in topological $\mathbb{Z}_2$ spin liquids. We show that in the presence of the full $\mathrm{SO}(3)$ spin-rotational symmetry and if there is an odd number of spin-$\frac12$ per unit cell, the symmetry fractionalization of visons is completely fixed. On the other hand, visons can have different classes of symmetry fractionalization if the spin-rotational symmetry is reduced. As a concrete example, we show that visons in the Balents-Fisher-Girvin $\mathbb{Z}_2$ spin liquid have crystal symmetry fractionalization classes which are not allowed in $\mathrm{SO}(3)$ symmetric spin liquids, due to the reduced spin-rotational symmetry.
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Authors
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Yang Qi
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
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Meng Cheng
Microsoft Station Q, Station Q, Microsoft Research
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Chen Fang
Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology