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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
卷 108, 期 4, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.046401
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- ARO [W911NF-09-1-0527]
- NSF [DMR-0955778]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Materials Research [955778] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
We provide a self-consistent mean-field framework to study the effect of strong interactions in a quantum spin Hall insulator on the honeycomb lattice. We identify an exotic phase for large spin-orbit coupling and intermediate Hubbard interaction. This phase is gapped and does not break any symmetry. Instead, we find a fourfold topological degeneracy of the ground state on the torus and fractionalized excitations with semionic mutual braiding statistics. Moreover, we argue that it has gapless edge modes protected by time-reversal symmetry but a trivial Z(2) topological invariant. Finally, we discuss the experimental signatures of this exotic phase. Our work highlights the important theme that interesting phases arise in the regime of strong spin-orbit coupling and interactions.
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