Simplex Z2 spin liquids on the kagome lattice with projected entangled pair states: Spinon and vison coherence lengths, topological entropy, and gapless edge modes

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 87, Issue 14, 2013, Pages

  Poilblanc, Didier ^a   Schuch, Norbert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 84877075085     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.87.140407     Document Type: Article

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