Quantum Phases in a Doped Mott Insulator on the Shastry-Sutherland Lattice
Jun Liu, Nandini Trivedi, Yongbin Lee +2 more
We propose the projected BCS wave function as the ground state for the doped Mott insulator SrCu2(BO3)2 on the Shastry-Sutherland lattice. At half filling this wave function yields the exact ground state. Adding mobile charge carriers, we find a strong asymmetry between electron and hole doping. Upon electron doping an unusual metal with strong valence bond correlations forms. Hole doped systems are d-wave resonating valence bond superconductors in which superconductivity is strongly enhanced by the emergence of spatially varying plaquette bond order.
arXiv:cond-mat/0702118•Physical Review Letters•Nov 30, 2007•23 citations