The unconventional low-lying spin excitations, recently observed in neutron scattering experiments on Cs2CuCl4, are explained with a spin liquid wave function. The dispersion relation as well as the wave vector of the incommensurate spin correlations are well reproduced within a projected BCS wave function with gapless and fractionalized spin-1/2 excitations around the nodes of the BCS gap function. The proposed wave function is shown to be very accurate for one-dimensional spin-1/2 systems, and remains similarly accurate in the two-dimensional model corresponding to Cs2CuCl4, thus representing a good ansatz for describing spin fractionalization in two dimensions.
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0308252,
title = {Resonating valence bond wave function for the two dimensional fractional spin liquid},
author = {S. Yunoki and S. Sorella},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0308252},
year = {2011}
}