Friday, October 5, 2012

1210.1324 (Tsutomu Watanabe et al.)

Band and Mott Insulators and Superconductivity in Honeycomb-Lattice
Ionic-Hubbard Model
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Tsutomu Watanabe, Sumio Ishihara
Motivated by superconductivity (SC) in layered nitrides, we study an ionic-Hubbard model on a honeycomb lattice, which consists of two sublattices with an energy-level offset, by using an optimization variational Monte Carlo method. Parameter values for the Coulomb interaction and the energy-level offset, to realize a band insulator in non-doped state, are evaluated, and the SC state is investigated in a carrier-doped band insulator. It is found that, in a weakly doped band insulator, spin fluctuation remains and the spin-singlet d-wave SC state is realized. Present results support an unconventional spin-singlet SC state suggested by the experimental observations in layered nitrides.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1324

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