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We develop a new theoretical framework for describing and analyzing exotic phases of strongly correlated electrons which support excitations with fractional quantum numbers. Starting with a class of microscopic models believed to capture much of the essential physics of the cuprate superconductors, we derive a new gauge theory - based upon a {\it discrete} Ising or Z_2 symmetry - which interpolates naturally between an antiferromagnetic Mott insulator and a conventional d-wave superconductor. We explore the intervening regime, and demonstrate the possible existence of an exotic fractionalized insulator - the nodal liquid - as well as various more conventional insulating phases exhibiting broken lattice symmetries. A crucial role is played by vortex configurations in the Z_2 gauge field. Fractionalization is obtained if they are uncondensed. Within the insulating phases, the dynamics of these Z_2 vortices in two dimensions (2d) is described, after a duality transformation, by an Ising model in a transverse field - the Ising spins representing the Z_2 vortices. The presence of an unusual Berry's phase term in the gauge theory, leads to a doping-dependent "frustration" in the dual Isi

Author

Senthil, T.; Fisher, Matthew P. A.

Published

1999

Language

EN