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Magnetism and d-wave superconductivity on the half-filled square lattice with frustration

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2008-03-04 v1 Superconductivity

Abstract

The role of frustration and interaction strength on the half-filled Hubbard model is studied on the square lattice with nearest and next-nearest neighbour hoppings t and t' using the Variational Cluster Approximation (VCA). At half-filling, we find two phases with long-range antiferromagnetic (AF) order: the usual Neel phase, stable at small frustration t'/t, and the so-called collinear (or super-antiferromagnet) phase with ordering wave-vector (π,0)(\pi,0) or (0,π)(0,\pi), stable for large frustration. These are separated by a phase with no detectable long-range magnetic order. We also find the d-wave superconducting (SC) phase (dx2y2d_{x^2-y^2}), which is favoured by frustration if it is not too large. Intriguingly, there is a broad region of coexistence where both AF and SC order parameters have non-zero values. In addition, the physics of the metal-insulator transition in the normal state is analyzed. The results obtained with the help of the VCA method are compared with the large-U expansion of the Hubbard model and known results for the frustrated J1-J2 Heisenberg model. These results are relevant for pressure studies of undoped parents of the high-temperature superconductors: we predict that an insulator to d-wave SC transition may appear under pressure.

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@article{arxiv.0711.0214,
  title  = {Magnetism and d-wave superconductivity on the half-filled square lattice with frustration},
  author = {Andriy H. Nevidomskyy and Christian Scheiber and David Senechal and A. -M. S. Tremblay},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.0214},
  year   = {2008}
}

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12 pages, 10 figures