Resonating valence bond wave function for the two-dimensional fractional spin liquid.
The unconventional low-lying spin excitations, recently observed in neutron scattering experiments on Cs2CuCl4, are explained with a spin liquid wave function. The dispersion relation as well as the wave vector of the incommensurate spin correlations are well reproduced within a projected BCS wave function with gapless and fractionalized spin-1/2 excitations around the nodes of the BCS gap function. The proposed wave function is shown to be very accurate for one-dimensional spin-1/2 systems and remains similarly accurate in the two-dimensional model corresponding to Cs2CuCl4, thus representing a good ansatz for describing spin fractionalization in two dimensions.
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Istituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia (INFM)-Democritos, National Simulation Centre, and Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), I-34014 Trieste, Italy.
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