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Theory of a competitive spin liquid state for weak Mott insulators on the triangular lattice
Ryan V Mishmash1, James R Garrison, Samuel Bieri
1Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA.
Abstract:
We propose a novel quantum spin liquid state that can explain many of the intriguing experimental properties of the low-temperature phase of the organic spin liquid candidate materials κ-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu2(CN)3 and EtMe3Sb[Pd(dmit)2]2. This state of paired fermionic spinons preserves all symmetries of the system, and it has a gapless excitation spectrum with quadratic bands that touch at momentum k[over →]=0. This quadratic band touching is protected by symmetries. Using variational Monte Carlo techniques, we show that this state has highly competitive energy in the triangular lattice Heisenberg model supplemented with a realistically large ring-exchange term.
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