Weak Mott insulators on the triangular lattice: Possibility of a gapless nematic quantum spin liquid
We study the energetics of Gutzwiller projected BCS states of various symmetries for the triangular lattice antiferromagnet with a four-particle ring exchange using variational Monte Carlo methods. In a range of parameters the energetically favored state is found to be a projected dx2−y2 paired stat...
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American Physical Society
2011
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/60860 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4203-4148 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7809-8157 |