title: Quantum dimer model on the kagome lattice: solvable dimer-liquid and ising gauge theory.
abstract: We introduce quantum dimer models on lattices made of corner-sharing triangles. These lattices include the kagome lattice and can be defined in arbitrary geometry. They realize fully disordered and gapped dimer-liquid phase with topological degeneracy and deconfined fractional excitations, as well as solid phases. Using geometrical properties of the lattice, several results are obtained exactly, including the full spectrum of a dimer liquid. These models offer a very natural-and maybe the simplest possible-framework to illustrate general concepts such as fractionalization, topological order, and relation to Z2 gauge theories.
authors.affiliation: Service de Physique Théorique, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France. gmisguich@cea.fr
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authors.lastname: Misguich
authors.forename: D
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authors.lastname: Serban
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authors.lastname: Pasquier