Recent experimental results of angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy suggested that an additional strong nearest neighbor attraction in the Hubbard model might be significant for the doped cuprates. The stripe-ordered patterns, which are formed by the inhomogeneous distribution of spin, charge, and pairing correlations in
CuO2 planes, are a well-known feature of the doped cuprates. By employing constrained path quantum Monte Carlo, we examine the effect of the nearest neighbor attraction on a two-dimensional repulsive Hubbard model. Within and across the stripe regions, the ground-state spin correlations and the
d-wave pairing correlation are calculated. We found that the spin-spin correlation is the largest when the interstripe region is nearly half filled, and we also found the
d-wave superconducting correlation of the neighboring sites is enhanced in the presence of the stripe pattern. This reveals the crucial effects of the strong nearest neighbor attraction on superconductivity in doped cuprates.
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 appearance of more nearly half-filled regions when the doped holes are confined to the stripes. We also observe a $\ensuremath{\pi}$-phase shift in the magnetic order.
Abstract Several state-of-the-art numerical methods have observed static or fluctuating spin and charge stripes in doped two-dimensional Hubbard models, suggesting that these orders play a significant role in shaping the cuprate phase diagram. Many experiments, however, also indicate that the cuprates have strong electron-phonon (e-ph) coupling, and it is unclear how this interaction influences stripe correlations. We study static and fluctuating stripe orders in the doped single-band Hubbard-Holstein model using zero temperature variational Monte Carlo and finite temperature determinant quantum Monte Carlo. We find that the lattice couples more strongly with the charge component of the stripes, leading to an enhancement or suppression of stripe correlations, depending on model parameters like the next-nearest-neighbor hopping
t′ t′ or phonon energy Ω. Our results help elucidate how thee-ph interaction can tip the delicate balance between stripe and superconducting correlations in the Hubbard-Holstein model with implications for our understanding of the high-Tccuprates.
The two-dimensional Hubbard model is widely believed to capture the key ingredients of high-temperature superconductivity in cuprate materials. Here we report a constrained path quantum Monte Carlo study of the square-lattice extended Hubbard model with on-site Coulomb repulsion
U and nearest-neighbor (NN) electron attraction
V. Upon doping $\ensuremath{\delta}$ = 0.125, we find that NN electron attraction
V significantly promotes an exotic spin-triplet (
p-wave) pairing, with the
p-wave pairing correlations growing stronger as
V increases. Meanwhile, the ${d}_{{x}^{2}\ensuremath{-}{y}^{2}}$-wave (
d-wave) pairing in the intermediate coupling regime shows an insignificant response to the increase of
V. The spin density wave order, which is observed near half filling in the particle-hole channel, is also almost unaffected by the NN electron attraction
V, reinforcing the established relationship between
d-wave superconductivity (SC) and spin order. As the doping becomes heavier (i.e., $\ensuremath{\delta}$ increases), the dominant region of
p-wave pairing expands, further suppressing the presence of
d-wave pairing. Our paper suggests the
p-wave pairing region can be induced and further broadened by the NN electron attraction
V, offering a feasible mechanism to realize
p-wave SC in realistic cuprate materials.
The long-studied Hubbard model is one of the simplest models of copper-oxide superconductors. However, the connection between the model and the experimental phase diagram is still under debate, in particular regarding the existence and extent of the
d-wave superconducting phase. Recent rapid progress in improving the accuracy of numerical solvers has opened a way to answer this question reliably. Here, we study the hole-doping concentration ($\ensuremath{\delta}$) dependence of the Hubbard model in the ground states on a square lattice at strong coupling
U/t=10, for the on-site interaction
U and the transfer
t, using a variational Monte Carlo method. The method, which combines tensor network and Lanczos methods on top of Pfaffian wave functions, reveals a rich phase diagram, in which many orders compete severely and degenerate within the energy range of
0.01t. We have identified distinct phases including a uniform
d-wave superconducting phase for $0.17\ensuremath{\lesssim}\ensuremath{\delta}\ensuremath{\lesssim}0.22$ and a stripe charge/spin ordered phase for $\ensuremath{\delta}\ensuremath{\lesssim}0.17$ with the stripe period depending on $\ensuremath{\delta}$, together with presumable spatially coexisting antiferromagnetic and stripe order for $\ensuremath{\delta}\ensuremath{\lesssim}0.07$ and coexisting stripe and
d-wave superconductivity for $0.07\ensuremath{\lesssim}\ensuremath{\delta}\ensuremath{\lesssim}0.17$. The present, improved method revealed a wider region of a charge uniform superconducting phase than the previous studies and shows a qualitative similarity to the phase diagram of the cuprate superconductors. The superconducting order parameter is largest at doping of around $\ensuremath{\delta}=0.17$ in the ground state, which undergoes phase transitions from an inhomogeneous to a uniform state.
Motivated by significant discrepancies between experimental observations of electron-doped cuprates and numerical results of the Hubbard model, we investigate the role of nearest-neighbor (NN) electron interactions
V by studying the
t−U−V model on square lattices. Upon doping
δ= 0.153, by using constrained path quantum Monte Carlo (CPQMC) method, we find that NN electron attraction
V can notably drive an exotic
p-wave spin-triplet pairing, while the NN electron repulsion
V will suppress the
dx2−y2-wave (
d-wave) pairing and triggers the
dxy-wave pairing. Especially in the intermediate coupling regime, as NN repulsion increases, the intensity of
dxy-wave pairing also increases, further suppressing the presence of
d-wave pairing, which may help explain the notable suppression of
d-wave pairing in electron-doped cuprate superconductors. Besides the pairing phase, we also find that the NN electron attraction
V has no significant effect on spin density wave (SDW) and charge density wave (CDW), but repulsion
V significantly enhanced CDW and suppressed SDW. Our study suggests the
t−U−V Hubbard model can serve as the minimal model to capture the essential physics of the electron-doped cuprates.