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Superconductivity versus tunneling in a doped antiferromagnetic ladder

J. P. Rodriguez

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.60.1303 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

The low-energy charge excitations of a doped antiferromagnetic ladder are modeled by a system of interacting spinless fermions that live on the same ladder. A relatively large spin gap is assumed to “freeze out” all spin fluctuations. We find that the formation of rung hole pairs coincides with the opening of a single-particle gap for charge excitations along chains and with the absence of coherent tunneling in between chains. We also find that such hole pairs condense into either a crystalline or superconducting state as a function of the binding energy.

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