Resonating valence bonds: A new kind of insulator?

doi:10.1016/0025-5408(73)90167-0

Materials Research Bulletin

Volume 8, Issue 2, February 1973, Pages 153-160

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Abstract

The possibility of a new kind of electronic state is pointed out, corresponding roughly to Pauling's idea of “resonating valence bonds” in metals. As observed by Pauling, a pure state of this type would be insulating; it would represent an alternative state to the Néel antiferromagnetic state for S = 1/2. An estimate of its energy is made in one case.

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Work at the Cavendish Laboratory supported in part by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Office of Aerospace Research, U. S. Air Force, under grant No. 1052-69.

This paper was originally intended for the Pauling Festschrift, Volume 7, Number 11 (November 1972).

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Resonating valence bonds: A new kind of insulator?☆

Abstract

Nature of the Chemical Bond

Phys. Rev.

J. Appl. Phys.

Physica

Ark. Mat. Astro. Fys.