Orbital currents and charge density waves in a generalized Hubbard ladder

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2005.08.005MaRDI QIDQ2368897zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. O. Fjærestad, J. B. Marston, U. Schollwöck

Publication date 28 April 2006

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0412709

zbMATH Keywords

d-density wavehalf fillinghole dopingHubbard modelrenormalization-group flowstaggered flux

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamic renormalization group methods applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C28) Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55)

Abstract: We study a generalized Hubbard model on the two-leg ladder at zero temperature, focusing on a parameter region with staggered flux (SF)/d-density wave (DDW) order. To guide our numerical calculations, we first investigate the location of a SF/DDW phase in the phase diagram of the half-filled weakly interacting ladder using a perturbative renormalization group (RG) and bosonization approach. For hole doping delta away from half-filling, finite-size density-matrix renormalization-group (DMRG) calculations are used to study ladders with up to 200 rungs for intermediate-strength interactions. In the doped SF/DDW phase, the staggered rung current and the rung electron density both show periodic spatial oscillations, with characteristic wavelengths 2/delta and 1/delta, respectively, corresponding to ordering wavevectors 2k_F and 4k_F for the currents and densities, where 2k_F = pi(1-delta). The density minima are located at the anti-phase domain walls of the staggered current. For sufficiently large dopings, SF/DDW order is suppressed. The rung density modulation also exists in neighboring phases where currents decay exponentially. We show that most of the DMRG results can be qualitatively understood from weak-coupling RG/bosonization arguments. However, while these arguments seem to suggest a crossover from non-decaying correlations to power-law decay at a length scale of order 1/delta, the DMRG results are consistent with a true long-range order scenario for the currents and densities.

Review text

This paper is devoted to a generalized Hubbard model on the two-leg ladder at zero temperature in the parameter region with staggered flux (SF)/\(d\)-density wave (DDW) order, focusing on the case of finite hole doping away from half filling. The approximate location of this parameter region with long-range SF/DDW order in the weakly interacting half-filled ladder is found from a calculation of the phase diagram of corresponding model, which is done by using abelian bosonization and semiclassical considerations to analyze the low-energy effective theory, resulting from a one-loop renormalization-group (RG) flow. Then, the finite system density-matrix renormalization-group (DMRG) calculations are used to study the SF/DDW phase in doped ladders, for intermediate-strength interactions and ladder sizes up to 200 rungs. For the hole dopings considered, currents are found to be large and show no evidence of decay. As the doping is increased the currents in the SF/DDW phase decrease in magnitude and for sufficiently strong doping SF/DDW order becomes completely suppressed. The rung currents found in the doped SF/DDW phase vary both in sign and magnitude, corresponding to an ordering wavevector \(2kF = p(1 - d)\), where \(d\) is the hole doping away from half filling. It is found, that a charge density moduilation coexists with the orbital currents in the doped SF/DDW phase. The staggered rung current and the rung electron density both show a periodic spatial variation with characteristic wave-lengths \(2/d\) and \(1/d\), respectively, corresponding to ordering wavevectors \(2kF\) and \(4kF\) for the currents and density modulation. While, the most of the DMRG results can be qualitatively understood from weak coupling RG/bosonization arguments, it is shown the DMRG results are consistent with a true long-range order scenario for the currents and densities.

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