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Jun Liu1, Nandini Trivedi, Yongbin Lee
1Department of Physics and Astronomy and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA.
Abstract:
We propose the projected BCS wave function as the ground state for the doped Mott insulator SrCu2(BO3)2 on the Shastry-Sutherland lattice. At half filling this wave function yields the exact ground state. Adding mobile charge carriers, we find a strong asymmetry between electron and hole doping. Upon electron doping an unusual metal with strong valence bond correlations forms. Hole doped systems are d-wave resonating valence bond superconductors in which superconductivity is strongly enhanced by the emergence of spatially varying plaquette bond order.
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