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Quasi-1D dynamics and nematic phases in the 2D Emery model

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2016-08-31 v4 Superconductivity

Abstract

We consider the Emery model of a Cu-O plane of the high temperature superconductors. We show that in a strong-coupling limit, with strong Coulomb repulsions between electrons on nearest-neighbor O sites, the electron-dynamics is strictly one dimensional, and consequently a number of asymptotically exact results can be obtained concerning the electronic structure. In particular, we show that a nematic phase, which spontaneously breaks the point- group symmetry of the square lattice, is stable at low enough temperatures and strong enough coupling.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0302163,
  title  = {Quasi-1D dynamics and nematic phases in the 2D Emery model},
  author = {Steven A. Kivelson and Eduardo Fradkin and Theodore Geballe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0302163},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

8 pages, 5 eps figures; revised manuscript with more detailed discussions; two new figures and three edited figuresedited figures; 14 references; new appendix with a detailed proof of the one-dimensional dynamics of the system in the strong coupling limit