Abstract
We implement the universal wave-function overlap (UWFO) method to extract modular and matrices for topological orders in Gutzwiller-projected parton wave functions (GPWFs). The modular and matrices generate a projective representation of on the degenerate-ground-state Hilbert space on a torus and may fully characterize the 2+1D topological orders, i.e., the quasiparticle statistics and chiral central charge (up to bosonic quantum Hall states). We use the variational Monte Carlo method to computed the and matrices of the chiral spin liquid (CSL) constructed by the GPWF on the square lattice, and we confirm that the CSL carries the same topological order as the bosonic Laughlin state. We find that the nonuniversal exponents in the UWFO can be small, and direct numerical computation can be applied on relatively large systems. The UWFO may be a powerful method to calculate the topological order in GPWFs.
- Received 6 October 2014
- Revised 22 February 2015
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.91.125123
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