Bond operator theory of doped antiferromagnets: from Mott insulators with bond-centered charge order, to superconductors with nodal fermions

Details Bond operator theory of doped antiferromagnets: from Mott insulators with bond-centered charge order, to superconductors with nodal fermions Bond operator theory of doped antiferromagnets: from Mott insulators with bond-centered charge order, to superconductors with nodal fermions

2001-04-26

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0104519v4

Physical Review B 64, 184510 (2001)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

16 pages + 14 pages of appendices, 18 figures; (v3) expanded discussion of theory and experimental implications; (v4) Removed

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.64.184510

The ground states and excitations of two-dimensional insulating and doped Mott insulators are described by a bond operator formalism. While the method represents the degrees of freedom of an arbitrary antiferromagnet exactly, it is especially suited to systems in which there is a natural pairing of sites into bonds, as in states with spontaneous or explicit spin-Peierls order (or bond-centered charge order). In the undoped insulator, as discussed previously, we obtain both paramagnetic and magnetically-ordered states. We describe the evolution of superconducting order in the ground state with increasing doping--at low doping, the superconductivity is weak, can co-exist with magnetic order, and there are no gapless spin 1/2 fermionic excitations; at high doping, the magnetic order is absent and we obtain a BCS d-wave superconductor with gapless spin 1/2, nodal fermions. We present the critical theory describing the onset of these nodal fermionic excitations. We discuss the evolution of the spin spectrum, and obtain regimes where a spin 1 exciton contributes a sharp resonance in the dynamic spin susceptiblity. We also discuss the experimental consequences of low-energy, dynamically fluctuating, spin-Peierls order in an isotropic CuO_2 plane--we compute consequences for the damping and dispersion of an optical phonon involving primarily the O ions, and compare the results with recent neutron scattering measurements of phonon spectra.

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