Exact-diagonalization demonstration of incommensurability and the associated Fermi surface forNholes in thet-Jmodel

Abstract

We have calculated S(q) and the single particle distribution function 〈${\mathit{n}}_{\mathbf{q}}$〉 for N holes in the t-J model on a nonsquare \ensuremath{\surd}8 \ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{} \ensuremath{\surd}32 16-site lattice with periodic boundary conditions. We justify the use of this lattice by appealing to results obtained from the conventional 4\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}4 16-site cluster, and an undoped 32-site system, each having the full square symmetry of the bulk. This new cluster has a high density of k points along the diagonal of reciprocal space, viz. along k=k(1,1). The results clearly demonstrate that when the single-hole problem has a ground state with a system momentum of k=(\ensuremath{\pi}/2,\ensuremath{\pi}/2), the resulting ground state for N holes involves a shift of the peak of the system's structure factor away from the antiferromagnetic state q=(\ensuremath{\pi},\ensuremath{\pi}). This shift effectively increases continuously with N. When the single hole problem has a ground state with a momentum that is not equal to k=(\ensuremath{\pi}/2,\ensuremath{\pi}/2), something that may easily be accomplished through the use of the t-t'-J model with t'/t small and positive, then the above-mentioned incommensurability for N holes is not found---the maximum of S(q) remains at q=(\ensuremath{\pi},\ensuremath{\pi}) for all N.The existence of the incommensurate ground states are presented in conjunction with the electron and hole momentum distribution functions. Our results may be interpreted as evidence for rigid-band filling of the dipolar spin distortion states of Shraiman and Siggia---by studying the hole-hole correlation function we demonstrate that the holes on our cluster tend to stay as far apart as is possible, and thus rigid-band filling is not unexpected. Thus, these results demonstrate that in some instances important results for moderately doped ${\mathrm{CuO}}_{2}$ planes can be predicted from a knowledge of the properties of weakly doped planes. However, the electron Fermi surface that we obtain also satisfies Luttinger's theorem, and has dimples at the wave vectors of the single hole ground state, k=(\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}\ensuremath{\pi}/2,\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}\ensuremath{\pi}/2). Finally, we comment on the relation of all of these results to the incommensurability found in S(q).