Quantum spin liquid with a Majorana Fermi surface on the three-dimensional hyperoctagon lattice

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 89, Issue 23, 2014, Pages

  Hermanns, M ^a   Trebst, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

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EID: 84902206542     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.89.235102     Document Type: Article

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