Statistics of spinons in the spin-liquid phase of Cs2CuCl4 -: art. no. 094412

Motivated by a recent experiment on Cs2CuCl4 [Coldea , Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1335 (2001)], we study the spin dynamics of the spin-liquid phase of the spin-1/2 frustrated Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the anisotropic triangular lattice. There have been two different proposals for the spin-liquid phase of Cs2CuCl4. These spin-liquid states support different statistics of spinons; the bosonic Sp(N) large-N mean-field theory predicts bosonic spinons, while the SU(2) slave-boson mean-field theory leads to fermionic spinons. We compute the dynamical spin structure factor for both types of spin-liquid state at zero and finite temperatures. While at zero temperature both theories agree with experiment on a qualitative level, they show substantial differences in the temperature dependence of the dynamical spin structure factor.