Phase separation and flux quantization in the doped quantum dimer model on the square and triangular lattices

Ralko, A.; Mila, F.; Poilblanc, D.

Phase separation and flux quantization in the doped quantum dimer model on the square and triangular lattices

Authors

Ralko, A.

Mila, F.

Poilblanc, D.

Description

The doped two-dimensional quantum dimer model is investigated by numerical techniques on the square and triangular lattices, with significantly different results. On the square lattice, at small enough doping, there is always a phase separation between an insulating valence-bond solid and a uniform superfluid phase, whereas on the triangular lattice, doping leads directly to a uniform superfluid in a large portion of the RVB phase. Under an applied Aharonov-Bohm flux, the superfluid exhibits quantization in terms of half-flux quanta, consistent with Q=2e elementary charge quanta in transport properties.
4 pages, 6 figures