In this thesis we deal with the specific collective phenomena in condensed matter - striped-structures formation. Such structures are observed in different branches of condensed matter physics, like surface physics or physics of high-temperature superconductors. These quasi-one-dimensional objects appear in theoretical analyses as well as in computer simulations of different theoretical models. Here, the main topic of interest is the stability of striped structures in certain quantum models, where a tendency towards crystallization competes with a tendency towards phase separation, and some basic properties of these structures.
We study the ground state properties of the hole-doped three-band Hubbard (Emery) model, describing the copper-oxygen planes of the cuprates, using large-scale two-dimensional tensor network calculations. Our simulations reveal a period 4 stripe state with spin and weak charge order over an extended doping range beyond $\ensuremath{\delta}\ensuremath{\sim}0.12$ and stripes with larger periods at smaller doping. The period 4 stripe exhibits coexisting
d-wave superconductivity in the doping range $0.15\ensuremath{\lesssim}\ensuremath{\delta}<0.25$, while at smaller doping around $\ensuremath{\delta}\ensuremath{\sim}1/8$ we find a strong competition between superconducting and nonsuperconducting stripes, including also pair density-wave states with an alternating sign structure on neighboring stripes, suggesting that the fate of superconductivity around 1/8 doping may be sensitive on the model parameters.
We investigate the two-dimensional t-J model at a hole doping of
x=81. The low-energy states are uniform (not striped). We find numerous excited states with charge density wave structures, which may be interpreted as striped phases. Some of these are consistent with neutron scattering data on cuprates and nickelates. Without additional terms in the t-J Hamiltonian, stripes can be stabilized only as ground states through the application of artificial boundary conditions.