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Resonating Valence Bond Wave Functions for Strongly Frustrated Spin Systems

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

The Resonating Valence Bond (RVB) theory for two-dimensional quantum antiferromagnets is shown to be the correct paradigm for large enough ``quantum frustration''. This scenario, proposed long time ago but never confirmed by microscopic calculations, is very strongly supported by a new type of variational wave function, which is extremely close to the exact ground state of the J1J2J_1{-}J_2 Heisenberg model for 0.4J2/J10.50.4 \lesssim J_2/J_1\lesssim 0.5. This wave function is proposed to represent the generic spin-half RVB ground state in spin liquids.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0107204,
  title  = {Resonating Valence Bond Wave Functions for Strongly Frustrated Spin Systems},
  author = {Luca Capriotti and Federico Becca and Alberto Parola and Sandro Sorella},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0107204},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 Pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in PRL

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