Valence bond spin liquid state in two-dimensional frustrated spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnets

Abstract

Fermionic valence bond approach in terms of SU(4) representation is proposed to describe the $J_{1}-J_{2}$ frustrated Heisenberg antiferromagnetic (AF) model on a {\it bipartite} square lattice. A uniform mean field solution without breaking the translational and rotational symmetries describes a valence bond spin liquid state, interpolating the two different AF ordered states in the large $J_{1}$ and large $J_{2}$ limits, respectively. This novel spin liquid state is gapless with the vanishing density of states at the Fermi nodal points. Moreover, a sharp resonance peak in the dynamic structure factor is predicted for momenta ${\bf q}=(0,0)$ and $(π,π)$ in the strongly frustrated limit $J_{2}/J_{1}\sim 1/2$, which can be checked by neutron scattering experiment.

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