Wednesday, January 23, 2013

1301.5008 (Yuan Wan et al.)

A phenomenological Z_2 lattice gauge theory of the spin-liquid state of
the kagome Heisenberg antiferromagnet
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Yuan Wan, Oleg Tchernyshyov
We construct a phenomenological Z_2 lattice gauge theory to describe the spin-liquid state of the S=1/2 kagome Heisenberg antiferromagnet in the sector with zero total spin. The model is a natural generalization of the Misguich-Serban-Pasquier Hamiltonian with added interactions that are strongly constrained by lattice symmetries. We are able to reproduce qualitatively many of the characteristic features observed in recent numerical studies. We also make connections to the previous works along similar lines.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.5008

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