In this paper, we propose a method to understand the nature for the quantum disorder phase of the two-dimensional (2D) high spin frustrated model. The ground state and excitation properties of a fully frustrated 2D spin-1 model are studied based on a model whose groundstate can be found exactly. By analogy to the pseudo-potential approach in the fractional quantum Hall effect, we conclude that the ground states of the fully frustrated spin-1 model are doubly degenerate valance bond solid (VBS) states along the horizontal or vertical direction of the square lattice. We also find that the ground state could be characterized by a nonzero string order, which rarely happened in the 2D case. The method that we used reveals the connection between the fractional quantum hall e ect and the frustrated 2D antiferromagnetism system. The VBS states capture the main character of the disordered phase in the 2D spin-1 frustrated system, and can be verified by a numerical method.

A mutual-Chern-Simons Lagrangian is derived as a minimal field theory description of the phasestring model for doped antiferromagnets. Such an e ective Lagrangian is shown to retain the full symmetries of parity, time-reversal, and global SU (2) spin rotation, in contrast to conventional Chern-Simons theories where first two symmetries are usually broken. Two ordered phases, i.e., antiferromagnetic and superconducting states, are found at low temperatures as characterized by "dual" Meissner e ects and dual flux quantization conditions due to the mutual-Chern-Simons gauge structure. A "dual" confinement in charge/spin degrees of freedom occurs such that no true spincharge separation is present in these ordered phases, but the spin-charge separation/deconfinement serves as a driving force in the unconventional phase transitions of these ordered states to disordered states.

The existence of conserved spin Hall currents is shown in a strongly correlated system without involving spin-orbit coupling. The spin Hall conductivity is determined by intrinsic bulk properties, which remains finite even when the charge resistivity diverges in strong magnetic fields at zero temperature. The state in the latter limit corresponds to a spin Hall insulator. Such a system is a doped Mott insulator described by the phase string theory, and the spin Hall e ect is predicted to coexist with the Nernst e ect to characterize the intrinsic properties of the low-temperature pseudogap phase.

In this paper, it is shown how a single stripe and a stripe phase grow from individual holes in the low-doping regime. In an effective low-energy description of the t-J model, i.e., the phase-string model, a hole doped into the spin-ordered phase will induce a dipolar distortion in the background Kou and Weng, Phys. Rev. B 67, 115103 2003. We analyze the hole-dipole configurations with lowest energy under a dipole-dipole interaction and show that these holes tend to arrange themselves into a regular polygon. Such a stable polygon configuration will turn into a stripe as the number of hole dipoles becomes thermodynamically large and eventually a uniform stripe state can be formed, which constitutes an energetically competitive phase at low doping. We also briefly discuss the effect of Zn impurities on individual hole dipoles and stripes.

Based on an e ective model of a doped antiferromagnetic Mott insulator, we show that a doped hole will induce a dipole-like spin configuration in a spin ordered phase at low doping. The kinetic energy of doped holes is severely frustrated and a hole-dipole object is actually localized or selftrapped in space. Without a balance from the kinetic energy, the long-range dipole-dipole interaction between doped holes will dominate the low-energy physics, leading to an inhomogeneity instability as hole-dipoles collapse into stripes. Both antiphase metallic stripes of quarter-filling and antiphase insulating stripes along a diagonal direction are discussed as composed of hole-dipoles as elementary building blocks. Stripe melting and competing phases are also discussed.