Resonating dimer–monomer liquid state in a magnetization plateau of a spin- $$\frac{1}{2}$$ 1 2 kagome-strip Heisenberg chain

Abstract

The kagome lattice is an ideal platform for studying the effects of frustration in spin systems. Here, the authors investigate a half-integer spin chain placed on a one-dimensional kagome system finding a rich phase diagram that presents a gapless spin-liquid phase and supports their results through a resonating dimer–monomer model