Mott Transitions and d-Wave Superconductivity in Half-Filled-Band Hubbard Model on Square Lattice with Geometric Frustration
Hisatoshi Yokoyama, Masao Ogata, Yukio Tanaka
Mechanisms of Mott transitions and d x 2 Ày 2 -wave superconductivity (SC) are studied in the half-filledband Hubbard model on square lattices with a diagonal hopping term (t 0 ), using an optimization (or correlated) variational Monte Carlo method.In the trial wave functions, a doublon-holon binding effect is introduced in addition to the onsite Gutzwiller projection.We mainly treat a d-wave singlet state and a projected Fermi sea.In both wave functions, first-order Mott transitions without direct relevance to magnetic orders occur at U ¼ U c , which is approximately the bandwidth, for arbitrary t 0 =t.These transitions originate in the binding or unbinding of a doublon to a holon.d-wave SC appears in a narrow range immediately below U c .The robust d-wave superconducting correlation is necessarily accompanied by enhanced antiferromagnetic correlation; the strength of SC decreases, as t 0 =t increases.
arXiv:cond-mat/0607470•Journal of the Physical Society of Japan•Nov 15, 2006•118 citations