# Effective Field Theory of Chiral Spin Liquid between Ordered Phases in Kagom\'e Antiferromagnet

## TL;DR

This paper develops an effective field theory for the chiral spin liquid in kagomé antiferromagnets, showing how quantum fluctuations and topological terms lead to chiral symmetry breaking and the emergence of a Chern-Simons term at phase transitions.

## Contribution

It introduces a novel effective field theory framework capturing the chiral spin liquid state and its relation to ordered phases in kagomé antiferromagnets, including the role of topological Chern-Simons terms.

## Key findings

- Chiral spin liquid occurs in the ground state with first three neighbor interactions.
- Quantum fluctuations are as strong as those from first neighbor exchanges.
- A Chern-Simons term emerges at the transition between ordered states.

## Abstract

We propose in this work an effective field theory description of the chiral spin liquid state in Heisenberg spin system on kagom\'e lattice.To this end, we derive the low-energy effective theory of kagom\'e (isotropic) Heisenberg antiferromagnet around its ordered ground states found numerically and show that quantum fluctuations induced by further neighbor spin exchanges are equally strong as those from first neighbor.We use a chiral order parameter theory to argue for the occurrence of finite temperature chiral symmetry breaking transition into chiral ordered state in kagom\'e antiferromagnet with further neighbor spin exchange interactions.We compute the chiral symmetry breaking term in the effective ground state energy and show that chiral spin liquid necessarily occurs in the ground state of kagom\'e antiferromagnet with the first three nearest-neighbor spin exchange interactions.Finally, we consider the quantum criticality of the kagom\'e antiferromagnet and show that a Chern-Simons term emerges naturally at the transition between two ordered states that satisfy appropriate `matching condition' that we derive, providing explanation for why chiral spin liquid could occur at the transition between appropriate ordered states.This emergent Chern-Simons term is the low energy effective theory of the chiral spin liquid state, where the chirality is the immediate consequence of the breaking of discrete symmetries by this topological field theory.