The properties of the groundstate and first excitations of 2dimensionnal quantum antiferromagnets are rapidly sketched. A special emphasis is put on the gapped phases: Valence Bond Crystals and the two types of Spin Liquids. New results on the spin susceptibility of small samples of the Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a kagom\'e lattice are displayed for comparison with Kagemaya {\it et al.} experimental result (this conference).
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0212351,
title = {Spin-1/2 antiferromagnets in 2 dimensions},
author = {C. Lhuillier and P. Sindzingre},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0212351},
year = {2007}
}
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7 pages, 4 figures, Proceedings of French-Japanese Symposium on "Quantum Properties of Low-Dimensional Antiferromagnets", held in Fukoaka, Japan, November 20-22, 2001