Wednesday, September 5, 2012

1209.0049 (R. Mondaini et al.)

Determinant Quantum Monte Carlo Study of the Enhancement of d-wave
Pairing by Charge Inhomogeneity
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R. Mondaini, T. Ying, T. Paiva, R. T. Scalettar
Striped phases, in which spin, charge, and pairing correlations vary inhomogeneously in the CuO_2 planes, are a known experimental feature of cuprate superconductors, and are also found in a variety of numerical treatments of the two dimensional Hubbard Hamiltonian. In this paper we use determinant Quantum Monte Carlo to show that if a stripe density pattern is imposed on the model, the d-wave pairing vertex is significantly enhanced. We attribute this enhancement to an increase in antiferromagnetic order which is caused by the appearence of more nearly half-filled regions when the doped holes are confined to the stripes. We also observe a \pi-phase shift in the magnetic order.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.0049

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