Phase separation and flux quantization in the doped quantum dimer model on square and triangular lattices.
The doped two-dimensional quantum dimer model is investigated by numerical techniques on the square and triangular lattices, with significantly different results. On the square lattice, at small enough doping, there is always a phase separation between an insulating valence-bond solid and a uniform superfluid phase, whereas on the triangular lattice, doping leads directly to a uniform superfluid in a large portion of the resonating-valence-bond (RVB) phase. Under an applied Aharonov-Bohm flux, the superfluid exhibits quantization in terms of half-flux quanta, consistent with Q=2e elementary charge quanta in transport properties.
Ralko
Arnaud
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Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, CNRS and Université Paul Sabatier, F-31062 Toulouse, France.
Mila
Frédéric
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Poilblanc
Didier
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