Impurity-doped kagome antiferromagnet: A quantum dimer model approach

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 17, 2010, Pages

  Poilblanc, Didier ^a   Ralko, Arnaud ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

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EID: 78649706798     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.82.174424     Document Type: Article

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