title: Chiral Spin Liquids in Triangular-Lattice SU(N) Fermionic Mott Insulators with Artificial Gauge Fields.
abstract: We show that, in the presence of a π/2 artificial gauge field per plaquette, Mott insulating phases of ultracold fermions with SU(N) symmetry and one particle per site generically possess an extended chiral phase with intrinsic topological order characterized by an approximate ground space of N low-lying singlets for periodic boundary conditions, and by chiral edge states described by the SU(N)_{1} Wess-Zumino-Novikov-Witten conformal field theory for open boundary conditions. This has been achieved by extensive exact diagonalizations for N between 3 and 9, and by a parton construction based on a set of N Gutzwiller projected fermionic wave functions with flux π/N per triangular plaquette. Experimental implications are briefly discussed.
authors: Institute of Physics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors: Pierre
authors: P
authors: Nataf
authors: Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa 277-8581, Japan.
authors: Miklós
authors: M
authors: Lajkó
authors: Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Innsbruck, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
authors: Alexander
authors: A
authors: Wietek
authors: Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-1525 Budapest, P.O.B. 49, Hungary.|MTA-BME Lendület Magneto-optical Spectroscopy Research Group, 1111 Budapest, Hungary.
authors: Karlo
authors: K
authors: Penc
authors: Institute of Physics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors: Frédéric
authors: F
authors: Mila
authors: Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Innsbruck, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
authors: Andreas M
authors: AM
authors: Läuchli