Type II t-J model and shared antiferromagnetic spin coupling from Hund's rule in superconducting La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$
Abstract
Recently, a 80 K superconductor was discovered in LaNiO under high pressure. Density function theory (DFT) calculations identify , as the active orbitals on the bilayer square lattice with a configuration of of Ni per site. One naive expectation is to describe this system in terms of a two-orbital t-J model. However, we emphasize the importance of Hund's coupling and the limit should be viewed as a spin-one Mott insulator. Especially, the significant Hund's coupling shares the inter-layer super-exchange of the orbital to the orbital, an effect that cannot be captured by conventional perturbation or mean-field approaches. In this study, we first explore the limit where the orbital is Mott localized, dealing with a one-orbital bilayer t-J model focused on the orbital. Notably, we find that strong inter-layer pairing survives up to hole doping driven by the transmitted , which explains the existence of a high Tc superconductor in the experiment at this doping level. Next, we uncover the more realistic situation where the orbital is slightly hole-doped and cannot be simply integrated out. We take the limit and propose a type II t-J model with four \textit{spin-half} singlon () states and three \textit{spin-one} doublon () states. Employing a parton mean-field approach, we recover similar results as in the one-orbital t-J model, but now with the effect of the automatically generated. We propose future experiments to electron dope the system to further enhance .
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@article{arxiv.2307.15706,
title = {Type II t-J model and shared antiferromagnetic spin coupling from Hund's rule in superconducting La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$},
author = {Hanbit Oh and Ya-Hui Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.15706},
year = {2023}
}
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5+4 pages, 4+2 figures