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Dynamical Mean-Field Theory of Resonating Valence Bond Antiferromagnets

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-07 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We propose a theory of the spin dynamics of frustrated quantum antiferromagnets, which is based on an effective action for a plaquette embedded in a self-consistent bath. This approach, supplemented by a low-energy projection, is applied to the kagome antiferromagnet. We find that a spin-liquid regime extends to very low energy, in which local correlation functions have a slow decay in time, well described by a power law behaviour and ω/T\omega/T scaling of the response function: χ(ω)ωαF(ω/T)\chi''(\omega)\propto \omega^{-\alpha}F(\omega/T).

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0106517,
  title  = {Dynamical Mean-Field Theory of Resonating Valence Bond Antiferromagnets},
  author = {Antoine Georges and Rahul Siddharthan and Serge Florens},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0106517},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

5 pages, 3 figures; contains some clarifications on the role of the triplet states and the triplet gap