POSSIBLE SPIN-LIQUID STATES ON THE TRIANGULAR AND KAGOME LATTICES

被引:116
作者
YANG, K
WARMAN, LK
GIRVIN, SM
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[1] Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.2641
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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The frustrated quantum spin-one-half Heisenberg model on the triangular and kagome lattices is mapped onto a single species of fermion carrying statistical flux theta = pi. The corresponding Chern-Simons gauge theory is analyzed at the Gaussian level and found to be massive. This provides a new motivation for the spin-liquid Kalmeyer-Laughlin wave function. Good overlap of this wave function with the numerical ground state is found for small clusters.
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页码:2641 / 2644
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