PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Yan, Simeng
AU  - Huse, David A.
AU  - White, Steven R.
TI  - Spin-Liquid Ground State of the <em>S</em> = 1/2 Kagome Heisenberg Antiferromagnet
AID  - 10.1126/science.1201080
DP  - 2011 Jun 03
TA  - Science
PG  - 1173--1176
VI  - 332
IP  - 6034
4099  - http://science.sciencemag.org/content/332/6034/1173.short
4100  - http://science.sciencemag.org/content/332/6034/1173.full
SO  - Science2011 Jun 03; 332
AB  - We use the density matrix renormalization group to perform accurate calculations of the ground state of the nearest-neighbor quantum spin S = 1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the kagome lattice. We study this model on numerous long cylinders with circumferences up to 12 lattice spacings. Through a combination of very-low-energy and small finite-size effects, our results provide strong evidence that, for the infinite two-dimensional system, the ground state of this model is a fully gapped spin liquid.