supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(12034004 and 11774306);the K.C.Wong Education Foundation(GJTD2020–01);the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB28000000);funded by the European Research Council(ERC)under the European Unions Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program(771537);supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft through project A06 of SFB 1143(247310070);The numerical simulations in this work are based on the GraceQ project(www.gracequantum.org)。
The simplest spin-orbital model can host a nematic spin-orbital liquid state on the triangular lattice.We provide clear evidence that the ground state of the SU(4)Kugel-Khomskii model on the triangular lattice can be ...