Abstract
A proposed ground state for the kagome lattice Heisenberg model consists of a valence bond crystal (VBC) with a 36-site unit cell. We calculate the low-lying triplet and singlet excitations in the VBC phase for the infinite-lattice model and for the 36-site cluster. For the infinite lattice, the lowest triplet excitation is found to have a spin gap of approximately $0.08\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.02J$ and a bandwidth of only about $0.01J$. For the 36-site cluster, which consists of a single unit cell with periodic boundary conditions, there are substantial finite-size effects: the spin gap there is estimated to be approximately $0.2J$, which is close to the exact diagonalization result of $0.164J$. The triplet excitations attract one another and form many bound states in the spin-singlet channel. We find a large number of such bound states for the 36-site cluster, many of which appear to lie below the spin gap, which is again in agreement with the results from exact diagonalization.
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