Pinwheel valence-bond solid and triplet excitations in the two-dimensional deformed kagome lattice

Nature Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 865-869

  Matan, K ^a,d   Ono, T ^b   Fukumoto, Y ^c   Sato, T J ^a   Yamaura, J ^a   Yano, M ^b   Morita, K ^b   Tanaka, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d Mahidol University   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER COMPOUNDS; GROUND STATE; QUANTUM THEORY; RUBIDIUM COMPOUNDS; TIN COMPOUNDS;

CORRELATED ELECTRON SYSTEMS; GEOMETRICALLY FRUSTRATED SYSTEMS; LATTICE DISTORTIONS; QUANTUM FLUCTUATION; RESONATING VALENCE BONDS; TRANSLATIONAL SYMMETRY; TRIPLET EXCITATION; VALENCE-BOND SOLIDS;

FLUORINE COMPOUNDS;

EID: 78149258008     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1761     Document Type: Article

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