Publications by Karlo Penc | EPFL Graph Search

Time-reversal symmetry breaking Abelian chiral spin liquid in Mott phases of three-component fermions on the triangular lattice

Frédéric Mila, Karlo Penc, Pierre Marcel Nataf, Miklos Lajko, Carolin Boos

We provide numerical evidence in favor of spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking and the concomitant appearance of an Abelian chiral spin liquid for three-component fermions on the triangular lattice described by an SU(3) symmetric Hubbard model with hopping ...

2020

Dimensional crossover in the SU(4) Heisenberg model in the six-dimensional antisymmetric self-conjugate representation revealed by quantum Monte Carlo and linear flavor-wave theory

Frédéric Mila, Francisco Hyunkyu Kim, Karlo Penc

Using linear flavor-wave theory (LFWT) and auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo (QMC), we investigate the properties of the SU(4) Heisenberg model on the anisotropic square lattice in the fully antisymmetric six-dimensional irreducible representation, a mod ...

2019

Linear flavor-wave theory for fully antisymmetric SU( N ) irreducible representations

Frédéric Mila, Pierre Marcel Nataf, Francisco Hyunkyu Kim, Karlo Penc

The extension of the linear flavor-wave theory to fully antisymmetric irreducible representations (irreps) of SU(N) is presented in order to investigate the color order of SU(N) antiferromagnetic Heisenberg models in several two-dimensional geometries. The ...

2017

Semiclassical theory of the magnetization process of the triangular lattice Heisenberg model

Frédéric Mila, Karlo Penc, Tommaso Coletta, Tamás András Tóth

Motivated by the numerous examples of 1/3 magnetization plateaux in the triangular-lattice Heisenberg antiferromagnet with spins ranging from 1/2 to 5/2, we revisit the semiclassical calculation of the magnetization curve of that model, with the aim of com ...

2016

Plaquette order in the SU(6) Heisenberg model on the honeycomb lattice

Frédéric Mila, Karlo Penc, Pierre Marcel Nataf, Miklos Lajko

We revisit the SU(6) Heisenberg model on the honeycomb lattice, which has been predicted to be a chiral spin liquid by mean-field theory [G. Szirmai et al., Phys. Rev. A 84, 011611(R) (2011)]. Using exact diagonalizations of finite clusters, infinite proje ...

2016

Chiral Spin Liquids in Triangular-LatticeSU(N)Fermionic Mott Insulators with Artificial Gauge Fields

Frédéric Mila, Karlo Penc, Pierre Marcel Nataf, Miklos Lajko

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 characteri ...

2016

Zero-temperature Monte Carlo study of the noncoplanar phase of the classical bilinear-biquadratic Heisenberg model on the triangular lattice

Frédéric Mila, Karlo Penc, Sandro Wenzel

We investigate the ground-state properties of the highly degenerate noncoplanar phase of the classical bilinear-biquadratic Heisenberg model on the triangular lattice with Monte Carlo simulations. For that purpose, we introduce an Ising pseudospin represen ...

2013

Competing states in the SU(3) Heisenberg model on the honeycomb lattice: Plaquette valence-bond crystal versus dimerized color-ordered state

Frédéric Mila, Karlo Penc, Miklos Lajko

Conflicting predictions have been made for the ground state of the SU(3) Heisenberg model on the honeycomb lattice: Tensor network simulations found a plaquette order [Zhao et al., Phys. Rev. B 85, 134416 (2012)], where singlets are formed on hexagons, whi ...

2013

Spin-Orbital Quantum Liquid on the Honeycomb Lattice

Frédéric Mila, Karlo Penc, Miklos Lajko

The main characteristic of Mott insulators, as compared to band insulators, is to host low-energy spin fluctuations. In addition, Mott insulators often possess orbital degrees of freedom when crystal-field levels are partially filled. While in the majority ...

American Physical Society2012

Degeneracy and ordering of the noncoplanar phase of the classical bilinear-biquadratic Heisenberg model on the triangular lattice

Frédéric Mila, Karlo Penc

We investigate the zero-temperature behavior of the classical Heisenberg model on the triangular lattice in which the competition between exchange interactions of different orders favors a relative angle between neighboring spins Phi is an element of (0,2 ...

2012