Topological excitations and the dynamic structure factor of spin liquids on the kagome lattice

Nature Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 289-293

  Punk, Matthias ^a,b   Chowdhury, Debanjan ^a   Sachdev, Subir ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUTRON SCATTERING; QUANTUM THEORY; TOPOLOGY;

ANTIFERROMAGNETS; DYNAMIC STRUCTURE FACTORS; FUNCTION OF FREQUENCY; NEUTRON SCATTERING EXPERIMENTS; QUANTUM SPIN LIQUID; SPATIAL DIMENSION; STRUCTURE FACTORS; TOPOLOGICAL EXCITATIONS;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 84897570606     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys2887     Document Type: Article

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