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Magnetism and superconductivity of strongly correlated electrons on the triangular lattice

Superconductivity 2007-05-23 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We investigate the phase diagram of the \tj Model on a triangular lattice using a Variational Monte-Carlo approach. We use an extended set of Gutzwiller projected fermionic trial wave-functions allowing for simultaneous magnetic and superconducting order parameters. We obtain energies at zero doping for the spin-1/2 Heisenberg model in very good agreement with the best estimates. Upon electron doping (with a hopping integral t<0t<0) this phase is surprisingly stable variationally up to n1.4n\approx 1.4, while the dx2y2+idxyd_{x^{2}-y^{2}}+i d_{xy} order parameter is rather weak and disappears at n1.1n\approx 1.1. For hole doping however the coplanar magnetic state is almost immediately destroyed and dx2y2+idxyd_{x^{2}-y^{2}}+i d_{xy} superconductivity survives down to n0.8n\approx 0.8. For lower nn, between 0.2 and 0.8, we find saturated ferromagnetism. Moreover, there is evidence for a narrow spin density wave phase around n0.8n\approx 0.8. Commensurate flux phases were also considered, but these turned out {\em not} to be competitive at finite doping.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0509520,
  title  = {Magnetism and superconductivity of strongly correlated electrons on the triangular lattice},
  author = {Cédric Weber and Andreas Laeuchli and Frédéric Mila and Thierry Giamarchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0509520},
  year   = {2007}
}

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11 pages; 11 figures