Fractionalization on the Surface: Is Type-II Terminated 1T-TaS_{2} Surface an Anomalously Realized Spin Liquid?

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Department of Physics and HKU-UCAS Joint Institute for Theoretical and Computational Physics at Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

Published: July 2022


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The type-II terminated 1T-TaS_{2} surface of a three-dimensional 1T-TaS_{2} bulk material realizes the effective spin-1/2 degree of freedom on each David star cluster with T^{2}=-1 such that the time-reversal symmetry is realized anomalously, despite the fact that bulk three-dimensional 1T-TaS_{2} material has an even number of electrons per unit cell with T^{2}=+1. This surface is effectively viewed as a spin-1/2 triangular lattice magnet, except with a fully gapped topological bulk. We further propose this surface termination realizes a spinon Fermi surface spin liquid with the surface fractionalization but with a nonexotic three-dimensional bulk. We analyze possible experimental consequences, especially the surface spectroscopic measurements, of the type-II terminated surface spin liquid.

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