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Possibility of S=1 spin liquids with fermionic spinons on triangular lattices
In this paper we generalize the fermionic representation for spins to
arbitrary spins. Within a mean field theory we obtain several spin liquid
states for spin antiferromagnets on triangular lattices, including
gapless f-wave spin liquid and topologically nontrivial spin liquid.
After considering different competing orders, we construct a phase diagram for
the -- model. The application to recently discovered material
is discussed.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Spinor Decomposition of SU(2) Gauge Potential and The Spinor Structures of Chern-Simons and Chern Density
In this paper, the decomposition of SU(2) gauge potential in terms of Pauli
spinors is studied. Using this decomposition, the spinor strutures of the
Chern-Simons form and the Chern density are obtained. Furthermore, by these
spinor structures, the knot quantum number of non-Abelian gauge theory is
discussed, and the second Chern number is characterized by the Hopf indices and
the Brouwer degrees of -mapping.Comment: 11 page
Fermionic theory for quantum antiferromagnets with spin S > 1/2
The fermion representation for S = 1/2 spins is generalized to spins with
arbitrary magnitudes. The symmetry properties of the representation is analyzed
where we find that the particle-hole symmetry in the spinon Hilbert space of S
=1/2 fermion representation is absent for S > 1/2. As a result, different path
integral representations and mean field theories can be formulated for spin
models. In particular, we construct a Lagrangian with restored particle-hole
symmetry, and apply the corresponding mean field theory to one dimensional (1D)
S = 1 and S = 3/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg models, with results that agree
with Haldane's conjecture. For a S = 1 open chain, we show that Majorana
fermion edge states exist in our mean field theory. The generalization to spins
with arbitrary magnitude S is discussed. Our approach can be applied to higher
dimensional spin systems. As an example, we study the geometrically frustrated
S = 1 AFM on triangular lattice. Two spin liquids with different pairing
symmetries are discussed: the gapped px + ipy-wave spin liquid and the gapless
f-wave spin liquid. We compare our mean field result with the experiment on
NiGa2S4, which remains disordered at low temperature and was proposed to be in
a spin liquid state. Our fermionic mean field theory provide a framework to
study S > 1/2 spin liquids with fermionic spinon excitations.Comment: 16 pages, 4 figure
Genetic incorporation of D-Lysine into diketoreductase in Escherichia coli cells
D-Lysine has been genetically introduced into diketoreductase in E. coli cells by utilization of an orthogonal Ph tRNA /Lysyl-tRNA synthetase pair. This is the first report on the genetic incoporation of D-amino acids into proteins, which may be generally applicable to a wide variety of applications
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