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Quantum Orders and Spin Liquids in Cs$_2$CuCl$_4$

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2007-05-23 v3

Abstract

Motivated by experiments on Cs2_2CuCl4_4 samples, we studied and classified the symmetric spin liquids on triangular lattice. We identified 63 Z2Z_2 spin liquids, 30 U(1) spin liquids and 2 SU(2) spin liquids. All those spin liquids have the same symmetry but different quantum orders. We calculated the spin spectral functions in some simple spin liquids and compared them to the one measured by experiments on Cs2_2CuCl4_4. We find that the U1Cτ+0τ0τ1U1C\tau _{+}^0\tau_{-}^0\tau^1 spin liquid or one of its relatives is consistent with observed properties of the spin liquid state in Cs2_2CuCl4_4. We discussed the fine distinctions among those possible spin liquids and the spin liquids proposed using slave-fermion approach, so that future experiments can determine which spin liquids actually describe the spin state in Cs2_2CuCl4_4.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0210662,
  title  = {Quantum Orders and Spin Liquids in Cs$_2$CuCl$_4$},
  author = {Yi Zhou and Xiao-Gang Wen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0210662},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

18 pages, 13 figures, RevTex4, more materials about quantum orders to be found in http://dao.mit.edu/~wen

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