Charge density waves and bond order waves in a quarter filled extended Hubbard ladder

E. Orignac () and R. Citro

The European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, 2003, vol. 33, issue 4, 419-438

Abstract: We investigate the phase diagram of a quarter filled Hubbard ladder with nearest-neighbor Coulomb repulsion using bosonization and renormalization group approach. Focusing on the strong-repulsion regime, we discuss the effect of an interchain exchange interaction J ⊥ and interchain repulsion V ⊥ on the possible ground states of the system and charge order configurations. Since the spin excitations always possess a gap, we find competing bond-order wave and charge density wave phases as possible ground states of the ladder model. We discuss the elementary excitations in these various phases and point an analogy between the excitations on some of these phases and those of a Kondo-Heisenberg insulator. We also study the order of the quantum phase transitions between the different ground states of the system. We obtain second order transitions in the Ising or SU(2) 2 universality class or first order transitions. We map the complete phase diagram in the J ⊥ –V ⊥ plane by integrating perturbative renormalization-group equations. Finally, we discuss the effect of doping away from half-filling and the effect of an applied magnetic field. Copyright EDP Sciences, Springer-Verlag 2003

Keywords: 71.10.Pm Fermions in reduced dimensions (anyons; composite fermions; Luttinger liquid; etc.); 71.10.Hf Non-Fermi-liquid ground states; electron phase diagrams and phase transitions in model systems; 71.10.Fd Lattice fermion models (Hubbard model; etc.) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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