title: Spin-charge separation in two-dimensional frustrated quantum magnets.
abstract: The dynamics of a mobile hole in two-dimensional frustrated quantum magnets is investigated by exact diagonalization techniques. Our results provide evidence for spin-charge separation upon doping the kagome lattice, a prototype of a spin liquid. In contrast, in the checkerboard lattice, a symmetry broken valence bond crystal, a small quasiparticle peak is seen for some crystal momenta, a finding interpreted as a restoration of weak holon-spinon confinement.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, CNRS-UMR 5152, Université Paul Sabatier, F-31062 Toulouse, France.
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Läuchli
authors.forename: Didier
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Poilblanc