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Quantum phases in a doped Mott insulator on the Shastry-Sutherland lattice

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2011-11-09 v1

Abstract

We propose the projected BCS wave function as the ground state for the doped Mott insulator SrCu2(BO3)2 on the Shastry-Sutherland lattice. At half filling this wave function yields the exact ground state. Adding mobile charge carriers, we find a strong asymmetry between electron and hole doping. Upon electron doping an unusual metal with strong valence bond correlations forms. Hole doped systems are d-wave RVB superconductors in which superconductivity is strongly enhanced by the emergence of inhomogeneous plaquette bond order.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0702118,
  title  = {Quantum phases in a doped Mott insulator on the Shastry-Sutherland lattice},
  author = {Jun Liu and Nandini Trivedi and Yongbin Lee and B. N. Harmon and Joerg Schmalian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0702118},
  year   = {2011}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures