Kagome antiferromagnet: A chiral topological spin liquid?

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 20, 2012, Pages

  Messio, Laura ^a   Bernu, Bernard ^b   Lhuillier, Claire ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETS; CHIRAL PHASE; CLASSICAL HEISENBERG MODEL; CLASSICAL SYSTEMS; DENSITY MATRIX RENORMALIZATION GROUP; EXACT DIAGONALIZATION; FLUX PHASE; KAGOME LATTICE; LOW TEMPERATURES; MEAN FIELD; NONZERO VALUES; QUANTUM FLUCTUATION; QUANTUM MODELS; QUANTUM PHASE; SMALL PERTURBATIONS; SPIN LIQUIDS; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS; TIME REVERSAL SYMMETRIES; ZERO FLUX;

DISCOVERY WELLS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 84861557945     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.207204     Document Type: Article

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