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Nodal-antinodal dichotomy and magic doping fractions in a stripe ordered antiferromagnet

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2009-11-11 v3 Superconductivity

Abstract

We study a model of a stripe ordered doped antiferromagnet consisting of coupled Hubbard ladders which can be tuned from quasi-one-dimensional to two-dimensional. We solve for the magnetization and charge density on the ladders by Hartree-Fock theory and find a set of solutions with lightly doped ``spin-stripes'' which are antiferromagnetic and more heavily doped anti-phase ``charge-stripes''. Both the spin- and charge-stripes have electronic spectral weight near the Fermi energy but in different regions of the Brillouin zone; the spin-stripes in the ``nodal'' region, near (\pi/2,\pi/2), and the charge-stripes in the ``antinodal'' region, near (\pi,0). We find a striking dichotomy between nodal and antinodal states in which the nodal states are essentially delocalized and two-dimensional whereas the antinodal states are quasi-one-dimensional, localized on individual charge-stripes. For bond-centered stripes we also find an even-odd effect of the charge periodicity which could explain the non-monotonous variations with doping of the low-temperature resistivity in LSCO

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0603156,
  title  = {Nodal-antinodal dichotomy and magic doping fractions in a stripe ordered antiferromagnet},
  author = {Mats Granath},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0603156},
  year   = {2009}
}

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6 pages, 6 figures, Expanded and improved, with additional references