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Majorana Liquids: The Complete Fractionalization of the Electron

Cenke Xu and Subir Sachdev
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 057201 – Published 27 July 2010

Abstract

We describe ground states of correlated electron systems in which the electron fractionalizes into separate quasiparticles which carry its spin and its charge, and into real Majorana fermions which carry its Fermi statistics. Such parent states provide a unified theory of previously studied fractionalized states: their descendants include insulating and conducting states with neutral spin S=1/2 fermionic spinons, and states with spinless fermionic charge carriers. We illustrate these ideas on the honeycomb lattice, with field theories of such states and their phase transitions.

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  • Received 9 May 2010

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.057201

©2010 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Cenke Xu and Subir Sachdev

  • Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA

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Vol. 105, Iss. 5 — 30 July 2010

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