Spinon Phonon Interaction and Ultrasonic Attenuation in Quantum Spin Liquids
Several experimental candidates for quantum spin liquids have been discovered in the past few years which appear to support gapless fermionic S=1/2 excitations called spinons. The spinons may form a Fermi sea coupled to a U(1) gauge field, and may undergo a pairing instability. We show that despite...
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American Physical Society
2011
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/64471 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7809-8157 |