Electrons undergoing a Mott transition may shed their charge but persist as neutral excitations of a quantum spin liquid (QSL). We introduce concrete two-dimensional models exhibiting this exotic behavior as they transition from superconducting or topological phases into fully charge-localized insulators. We study these Mott transitions and the confinement of neutral fermions at a second transition into a symmetry-broken phase. In the process, we also derive coupled-wire parent Hamiltonians for a non-Abelian QSL and a ${\mathbb{Z}}_4$ QSL.

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• Fractionalization
• Quantum criticality
• Spin liquid
• Mott insulators
• Bosonization
• Luttinger liquid model
• Quantum field theory