Resonating valence bond phase in the triangular lattice quantum dimer model

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1881-1884

  Moessner, R ^a   Sondhi, S L ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CHEMICAL BONDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL LATTICES; FUNCTION EVALUATION; GROUND STATE; HAMILTONIANS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

FRUSTRATED HEISENBERG MODELS; QUANTUM DIMER MODEL; RESONATING VALENCE BOND PHASE; SPINONS; TRIANGULAR LATTICE;

DIMERS;

EID: 17144436460     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.1881     Document Type: Article

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