Statistics of spinons in the spin-liquid phase of Cs2CuCl4
Abstract
Motivated by a recent experiment on Cs2CuCl4, we study the spin dynamics of the spin-liquid phase of the spin-1/2 frustrated Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the anisotropic triangular lattice. There have been two different proposals for the spin-liquid phase of Cs2CuCl4. These spin-liquid states support different statistics of spinons; the bosonic Sp(N) large-N mean field theory predicts bosonic spinons while the SU(2) slave-boson mean field theory leads to fermionic spinons. We compute the dynamical spin structure factor for both types of spin-liquid state at zero and finite temperatures. While at zero temperature both theories agree with experiment on a qualitative level, they show substantial differences in the temperature dependence of the dynamical spin structure factor.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0302452,
title = {Statistics of spinons in the spin-liquid phase of Cs2CuCl4},
author = {Chung-Hou Chung and Klaus Voelker and Yong Baek Kim},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0302452},
year = {2009}
}
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4 pages, including 4 figures