title: Frustrated antiferromagnets with entanglement renormalization: ground state of the spin-1/2 Heisenberg model on a kagome lattice.
abstract: Entanglement renormalization techniques are applied to numerically investigate the ground state of the spin-1/2 Heisenberg model on a kagome lattice. Lattices of N={36,144, infinity} sites with periodic boundary conditions are considered. For the infinite lattice, the best approximation to the ground state is found to be a valence bond crystal with a 36-site unit cell, compatible with a previous proposal. Its energy per site, E=-0.432 21, is an exact upper bound and is lower than the energy of any previous (gapped or algebraic) spin liquid candidate for the ground state.
authors.affiliation: School of Mathematics and Physics, the University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia.
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authors.lastname: Evenbly
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authors.lastname: Vidal