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Magnetic correlations and pairing in the 1/5-depleted square lattice Hubbard model
Ehsan Khatami1, Rajiv R P Singh2, Warren E Pickett2
1Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA and Department of Physics and Astronomy, San Jose State University, San Jose, California 95192, USA.
Abstract:
We study the single-orbital Hubbard model on the 1/5-depleted square-lattice geometry, which arises in such diverse systems as the spin-gap magnetic insulator CaV4O9 and ordered-vacancy iron selenides, presenting new issues regarding the origin of both magnetic ordering and superconductivity in these materials. We find a rich phase diagram that includes a plaquette singlet phase, a dimer singlet phase, a Néel and a block-spin antiferromagnetic phase, and stripe phases. Quantum Monte Carlo simulations show that the dominant pairing correlations at half filling change character from d wave in the plaquette phase to extended s wave upon transition to the Néel phase. These findings have intriguing connections to iron-based superconductors, and suggest that some physics of multiorbital systems can be captured by a single-orbital model at different dopings.
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