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Motivated by the unabating interest in the spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnetic model on the Kagome lattice, we investigate the energetics of projected Schwinger boson (SB) wave functions in the $J_1$--$J_2$ model with antiferromagnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-07-14 Tiamhock Tay , Olexei I. Motrunich

In this paper, we do a complete classification of valence-bond crystals (VBCs) on the kagome lattice based on general arguments of symmetry only and thus identify many new VBCs for different unit cell sizes. For the spin-1/2 Heisenberg…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-11-29 Yasir Iqbal , Federico Becca , Didier Poilblanc

By utilizing tensor-network-based methods, we investigate the zero- and finite-temperature properties of the spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnetic (HAF) model on an infinite Husimi lattice that contains 3/2 sites per triangle. The ground…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-02-27 Tao Liu , Shi-Ju Ran , Wei Li , Xin Yan , Yang Zhao , Gang Su

A recent article [Phys. Rev. X 15, 011047 (2025)] utilizes group-equivariant convolutional neural networks to study the ground state of the kagome Heisenberg antiferromagnet. On the largest finite-size cluster studied to date ($N=108$), the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-29 Helia Kamal , Dominik Kufel , DinhDuy Vu , Chris R. Laumann , Norman Y. Yao

We use the coupled cluster method to study the zero-temperature properties of an extended two-dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnet formed from spin-1/2 moments on an infinite spatially anisotropic kagome lattice of corner-sharing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-12-05 P. H. Y. Li , R. F. Bishop , C. E. Campbell , D. J. J. Farnell , O. Götze , J. Richter

We introduce a method to design a local spin Hamiltonian to realize a Gutzwiller-projected parton wave functions (GPWF) as its ground state. For example, the Dirac spin liquid (DSL) state is quite close to the true ground state of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-07-04 Jia-Wei Mei , Xiao-Gang Wen

By using Gutzwiller projected fermionic wave functions and variational Monte Carlo technique, we study the spin-$1/2$ Heisenberg model with the first-neighbor ($J_1$), second-neighbor ($J_2$), and additional scalar chiral interaction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-07 Wen-Jun Hu , Shou-Shu Gong , D. N. Sheng

We investigate the spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the kagome lattice with breathing anisotropy (i.e. with weak and strong triangular units), constructing an improved simplex Resonating Valence Bond (RVB) ansatz by successive…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-06 Mohsin Iqbal , Didier Poilblanc , Norbert Schuch

We study the spin-$1/2$ Heisenberg model on the triangular lattice with the antiferromagnetic first ($J_1$) and second ($J_2$) nearest-neighbor interactions using density matrix renormalization group. By studying the spin correlation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-07 Wen-Jun Hu , Shou-Shu Gong , Wei Zhu , D. N. Sheng

Highly frustrated spin systems such as the kagome lattice (KL) are a treasure trove of new quantum states with large entanglements. We thus study the spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ Heisenberg model on a kagome-strip chain (KSC), which is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-16 Katsuhiro Morita , Shigetoshi Sota , Takami Tohyama

Spin-$1/2$ kagome antiferromagnets are leading candidates for realizing quantum spin liquid (QSL) ground states. While QSL ground states are predicted for the pure Heisenberg model, understanding the robustness of the QSL to additional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-16 Shengtao Jiang , Arthur C. Campello , Wei He , Jiajia Wen , Daniel M. Pajerowski , Young S. Lee , Hong-Chen Jiang

We find that the best RVB state of the spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ Kagome antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model(spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ KAFH) is described by a $Z_{2}$ gapped mean field ansatz, which hosts a mean field spinon dispersion very different from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-11 Chun Zhang , Tao Li

We present a study of a simple model antiferromagnet consisting of a sum of nearest neighbor SO($N$) singlet projectors on the Kagome lattice. Our model shares some features with the popular $S=1/2$ Kagome antiferromagnet but is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-15 Matthew S. Block , Jonathan D'Emidio , Ribhu K. Kaul

We study the ground state properties of the spin-1/2 frustrated ferromagnetic J1-J2 Heisenberg model on the square lattice, employing projected BCS wavefunctions with spin-triplet pairings of the spinon fields as trial wavefunctions. Based…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-10-18 Ryuichi Shindou , Seiji Yunoki , Tsutomu Momoi

We study the zero-temperature phase diagram of the spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ Heisenberg model with breathing anisotropy (i.e., with different coupling strength on the upward and downward triangles) on the kagome lattice. Our study relies on large…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-01 Saeed S. Jahromi , Roman Orus , Didier Poilblanc , Frédéric Mila

We followed the Shastry--Shraiman formulation of Raman scattering in Hubbard systems and considered the Raman intensity profile in the spin-1/2 "perfect" kagome lattice herbertsmithite ZnCu_3(OH)_6Cl_2, assuming the ground state is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-02-01 Wing-Ho Ko , Zheng-Xin Liu , Tai-Kai Ng , Patrick A. Lee

We revisit the description of the low-energy singlet sector of the spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet on kagome in terms of an effective quantum dimer model. With the help of exact diagonalizations of appropriate finite-size clusters, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-16 Ioannis Rousochatzakis , Yuan Wan , Oleg Tchernyshyov , Frédéric Mila

We study the ground-state properties of the quantum spin liquid (QSL) phases of the spin-$1/2$ antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on the triangular lattice with nearest- ($J_1$), next-nearest- ($J_2$), and third-neighbor ($J_3$)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-10 Yi-Fan Jiang , Hong-Chen Jiang

Despite rapid progress in understanding gapped topological states, much less is known about gapless topological phases of matter, especially in strongly correlated electrons. In this work we discuss a large class of robust gapless quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-23 Yuan-Ming Lu

Spin liquids are exotic phases of quantum matter challenging Landau's paradigm of symmetry-breaking phase transitions. Despite strong exchange interactions, spins do not order or freeze down to zero temperature. While well-established for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-22 P. Khuntia , M. Velazquez , Q. Barthélemy , F. Bert , E. Kermarrec , A. Legros , B. Bernu , L. Messio , A. Zorko , P. Mendels