Tuning into the Kitaev spin liquid phase: A spin model on the honeycomb lattice with two types of Heisenberg exchange couplings

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Yu, Yue ^a,b   Liang, Long ^b   Niu, Qian ^c,d   Qin, Shaojing ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84873114662     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.87.041107     Document Type: Article

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