Resonating plaquette phase of a quantum six-vertex model

Details Resonating plaquette phase of a quantum six-vertex model Resonating plaquette phase of a quantum six-vertex model

2005-09-24

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0509624v3

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 147004 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

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Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.147004

The simplest quantum generalization of the six-vertex model describes fluctuations of the order parameter of the d-density wave (DDW), believed to compete with superconductivity in the high-Tc superconductors. The ground state of this model undergoes a first order transition from the DDW phase to a resonating plaquette phase as the quantum fluctuations are increased, which is explored with the help of quantum Monte Carlo simulations and analytic considerations involving the n-vector (n=2) model with cubic anisotropy. In addition to finding a new quantum state, we show that the DDW is robust against a class of quantum fluctuations of its order parameter. The inferred finite temperature phase diagram contains unsuspected multicritical points.

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