Comment on "High-Spin Polaron in Lightly Doped CuO2 Planes"
In a recent Letter (Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 036401 (2011)), Lau, et al. investigated the single hole problem in an effective model containing Cu d and O 2p orbitals by exact diagonalization on clusters composed of 32 CuO2 unit cells. With full quantum fluctuations due to the antiferromagnetic (AFM) backgroud, they found that spin-polaron solutions with spin 3/2 become lowest energy solutions in certain region of Brillouin zone (BZ), which they claimed no similiar solutions were obtained in other models or approximations before. In this Comment, we would like to point out that such high-spin polaron solutions have been found in our previous Letter (Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 057001, (2003)) and many of features described by Lau et al. have in fact been seen in our Letter.
The low-frequency conductivity of a disordered Fermi gas in one spatial dimension is governed by the Mott-Berezinskii law σ(ω)∝ω2lnω2. In a recent Letter [Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1760 (2000)] A. O. Gogolin claimed that this law is invalid, challenging our basic understanding of disordered systems and a massive amount of previous theoretical work. We point out two calculational errors in Gogolin's paper. Once we correct them, the Mott-Berezinskii formula is fully recovered. We also present numerical results supporting the Mott-Berezinskii formula but ruling out that of Gogolin.