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Supersolid Phases of a Doped Valence-Bond Quantum Antiferromagnet: Evidence for a Coexisting Superconducting Order Parameter

Marcin Raczkowski, Didier Poilblanc

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.027001 · Physical Review Letters

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Abstract

Motivated by numerical evidence of the valence-bond ground state of the two-dimensional Heisenberg pyrochlore lattice, we argue using a t−J model that it evolves under doping into novel phases characterized by superconductivity coexisting with the underlying valence-bond solid order. A fermionic mean-field theory supplemented by exact diagonalization results provide strong arguments in favor of the stability of such supersolid phases. The resemblance with modulated superconducting patterns in high-Tc cuprates as well as possible relevance to frustrated noncuprate superconductors such as spinels and pyrochlores is discussed.

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