Magnetism and superconductivity of strongly correlated electrons on the triangular lattice
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 ) this phase is surprisingly stable variationally up to , while the order parameter is rather weak and disappears at . For hole doping however the coplanar magnetic state is almost immediately destroyed and superconductivity survives down to . For lower , between 0.2 and 0.8, we find saturated ferromagnetism. Moreover, there is evidence for a narrow spin density wave phase around . 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