Mean field theory for spin liquids: Large-N slave-fermion approach

Journal club talk by Jeffrey Rau on May 27, 2010
Summary to be posted soon.

References:

* L. Balents, Nature 464, 191 (2010)
-A nice survey of recent theoretical and experimental results for spin liquids

* Affleck and Marston, PRB 37,3774 (longer version in PRB 39,11538)
* Quantum Field Theory of Many-Body Systems, X.G. Wen, Chapter Nine
-Reasonably pedagogical sources

* Read and Sachdev, Nucl. Phys. B316, 609
-Not so pedagogical sources