Creation and destruction of a spin gap in weakly coupled quarter-filled ladders

Details Creation and destruction of a spin gap in weakly coupled quarter-filled ladders Creation and destruction of a spin gap in weakly coupled quarter-filled ladders

2005-10-12

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0510325v2

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 146401 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

4+ pages; revised version; accepted by PRL

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.146401

We investigate weakly coupled quarter-filled ladders with model parameters relevant for NaV_2O_5 using density-matrix renormalization group calculations on an extended Hubbard model coupled to the lattice. NaV2O5 exhibits super-antiferroelectric charge order with a zigzag pattern on each ladder. We show that this order, with a periodicity of four ladders, causes a spin dimerization along the ladder and a corresponding spin gap of the same magnitude as that observed experimentally. The spin gap is destroyed again at large charge order due to a restructuring of the spins. An analysis of an effective spin model predicts a re-creation of the gap by inter-ladder singlets when the charge order increases further.

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