Quantum disordered phase near the Mott transition in the staggered-flux Hubbard model on a square lattice

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Chang, Chia Chen ^a   Scalettar, Richard T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC ORDERS; CONSTRAINED-PATH; DISORDERED PHASE; GROUND STATE PROPERTIES; INTERACTION STRENGTH; INTERMEDIATE PHASE; MOTT INSULATORS; MOTT TRANSITIONS; NONMAGNETIC GROUNDSTATES; POWER-LAW; QUANTUM MONTE CARLO METHODS; SPIN EXCITATION; SPIN LIQUIDS; SPIN-SPIN CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; SQUARE LATTICES;

ANTIFERROMAGNETISM; CRYSTAL LATTICES; GROUND STATE; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

HUBBARD MODEL;

EID: 84863855780     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.026404     Document Type: Article

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