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Motivated by recent experimental and numerical evidence of deconfined quantum critical points and quantum spin liquid states in the spin-1/2 Heisenberg model on the Shastry-Sutherland lattice, we studied possible symmetric spin liquid states and their proximate ordered states under Schwinger boson formalism. We found a symmetric gapped Z₂ spin liquid state for intermediate model parameter 0. 66<J₁/J₂<0. 71 under the mean-field approximation. The Schwinger boson mean-field picture is partially supported by exact-diagonalization and self-consistent spin wave theory results.
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