Spin-orbital quantum liquid on the honeycomb lattice

Physical Review X

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Corboz, Philippe ^a   Lajkó, Miklós ^b,c   Läuchli, Andreas M ^d   Penc, Karlo ^b,c   Mila, Frédéric ^e  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^e EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND INSULATORS; CRYSTAL-FIELD LEVELS; DIAGONALIZATIONS; DIRAC POINT; FERMIONIC ATOMS; HONEYCOMB GEOMETRY; HONEYCOMB LATTICES; LONG RANGE ORDERS; MOTT INSULATORS; NETWORK ALGORITHMS; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; OPTICAL LATTICES; ORBITAL DEGREES OF FREEDOM; ORBITALS; QUANTUM LIQUIDS; SPIN-ORBITALS; SYMMETRY-BREAKING; ULTRA-COLD;

ALGEBRA; FERMIONS; GEOMETRY; HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES; LATTICE THEORY; LIQUIDS; PARTICLE OPTICS; SPIN FLUCTUATIONS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84872425197     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.2.041013     Document Type: Article

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