Exact stripe, checkerboard, and droplet ground states in two dimensions

Miklos Gulacsi; Zsolt Gulacsi

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Exact stripe, checkerboard, and droplet ground states in two dimensions

Zsolt Gulacsi, Miklos Gulacsi

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Submitted 20 Feb 2006 · 3 references

Pith's reading: Exact stripe and checkerboard ground states are derived for a 2D periodic Anderson model below quarter filling, but only after adding terms that pin the pattern.

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CitationMiklos Gulacsi, Zsolt Gulacsi. "Exact stripe, checkerboard, and droplet ground states in two dimensions." arXiv:cond-mat/0602456 (2006). https://pith.science/paper/TEARQE2A

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Exact stripe and checkerboard ground states are derived for a 2D periodic Anderson model below quarter filling, but only after adding terms that pin the pattern.

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This paper studies a model of electrons on a two-dimensional lattice with two orbitals per site and strong repulsion between electrons on the same orbital. The authors use a mathematical trick: they rewrite the energy operator as a sum of positive pieces plus an offset. If a wavefunction makes every positive piece give zero, then that wavefunction is certainly the lowest-energy state, the ground state.

They find two families of model parameters that allow this trick. In family I, the ground state at one electron per site is a paramagnetic insulator. In family II, it is a ferromagnet. When electrons are removed, the ground state becomes highly degenerate: many patterns, including random droplet clusters, have the same energy. Among these degenerate patterns are regular stripes and checkerboards.

To single out the stripes, the authors add extra terms to the model: a site-dependent potential that favors electrons sitting on the stripe lines, or a dimerization of bonds. After adding such a term, they claim the stripe or checkerboard pattern becomes the unique ground state.

The catch is that these extra terms are chosen precisely to stabilize the stripe. The Hamiltonian is not a generic model of a real material; it is tailored so that the desired pattern wins. The derivation also relies on solving a system of 19 nonlinear equations, and the paper asserts such solutions exist without showing them explicitly. So the result is a rigorous existence proof for stripe-like ground states in a specially designed model, not a demonstration that stripes occur in any specific compound.

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Exact static nondegenerate stripe and checkerboard ground states are obtained in a two-dimensional generalized periodic Anderson model, for a broad concentration range below quarter filling. Specifically, after adding stabilization terms, the ground state of the extended Hamiltonian is a pure stripe or checkerboard configuration, with droplets eliminated.

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The transformation of the Hamiltonian into positive semidefinite form is possible only if the nonlinear matching equations (3), a system of 19 coupled equations, admit solutions of type I and II. The paper states 'We found that there are two types of solutions' but does not present the solutions or a proof of existence. If these solutions do not exist for the claimed parameter regions, the exact-state construction collapses. This assumption is distinct from the ground-state claim because it concerns the validity of the Hamiltonian transformation itself, not the properties of the wavefunction.

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Exact static nondegenerate stripe and checkerboard ground states are obtained in a two-dimensional generalized periodic Anderson model, for a broad concentration range below quarter filling. The random droplet states, also present in the degenerate ground state, are eliminated by extending the Hamiltonian with terms of different physical origin such as dimerization, periodic charge displacements, density waves, or distorsion lines.

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Exact static nondegenerate stripe and checkerboard ground states are obtained in a two-dimensional generalized periodic Anderson model, for a broad concentration range below quarter filling. The random droplet states, also present in the degenerate ground state, are eliminated by extending the Hamiltonian with terms of different physical origin such as dimerization, periodic charge displacements, density waves, or distorsion lines.

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**Figure 2.** FIG. 2: (a) Isolated plaquette with opposite spin at site

**Figure 3.** FIG. 3: Example of vertical stripe solutions for case I shown

**Figure 4.** FIG. 4: Example of diagonal stripe solutions for case

**Figure 5.** FIG. 5: Checkerboard originating from diagonal stripes at

**Figure 6.** FIG. 6: Bond alternation in x-direction to stabilize the str

**Figure 8.** FIG. 8: (Color online) The

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Here ˆU |Ψ g,R, 1/ 4⟩ = 0 since, for R = I the electrons with arbitrary spins are introduced on diﬀerent sites, and for R = II all ˆB† i,σ in (8) have the same ﬁxed spin σ, so the double occupancy for both p is excluded. Besides, based on (6), further we have ˆP |Ψ g,R, 1/ 4⟩ = 0. Since the minimum eigenvalue of ˆP + ˆU is zero, thus |Ψ g,R, 1/ 4⟩ is the ...

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Random droplet ground states Decreasing the number of ˆD† i,σ operators in the product of Eq.(8), the exact ground state below quarter ﬁlling can be written as well. In case I, for N < N Λ , we obtain |Ψ g,I, 1/ 4≥n>0⟩ = N∏ i=1 ˆC† i,σ |0⟩ , (9) where sites i can be arbitrarily chosen. Being empty sites present, the ground s tate is an itinerant paramagne...

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Degenerated stripe ground state solutions Decreasing N below N c p, stripes emerge in the ground state in both Eqs. (9,10) as vertical stripes (Fig. 3) or diagonal stripes (Fig. 4). The ground state wav e function containing NSt vertical stripe lines is |Ψ g,R,I St⟩ = NSt∏ j=1 ( ∏ i∈ISt,j ˆD† i,σ j )|0⟩ , (11) where ISt,j in case I (II ) represents the st...

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[1] [1]

Here ˆU |Ψ g,R, 1/ 4⟩ = 0 since, for R = I the electrons with arbitrary spins are introduced on diﬀerent sites, and for R = II all ˆB† i,σ in (8) have the same ﬁxed spin σ, so the double occupancy for both p is excluded. Besides, based on (6), further we have ˆP |Ψ g,R, 1/ 4⟩ = 0. Since the minimum eigenvalue of ˆP + ˆU is zero, thus |Ψ g,R, 1/ 4⟩ is the ...

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Random droplet ground states Decreasing the number of ˆD† i,σ operators in the product of Eq.(8), the exact ground state below quarter ﬁlling can be written as well. In case I, for N < N Λ , we obtain |Ψ g,I, 1/ 4≥n>0⟩ = N∏ i=1 ˆC† i,σ |0⟩ , (9) where sites i can be arbitrarily chosen. Being empty sites present, the ground s tate is an itinerant paramagne...

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[3] [3]

Degenerated stripe ground state solutions Decreasing N below N c p, stripes emerge in the ground state in both Eqs. (9,10) as vertical stripes (Fig. 3) or diagonal stripes (Fig. 4). The ground state wav e function containing NSt vertical stripe lines is |Ψ g,R,I St⟩ = NSt∏ j=1 ( ∏ i∈ISt,j ˆD† i,σ j )|0⟩ , (11) where ISt,j in case I (II ) represents the st...

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