Stripes, Antiferromagnetism, and the Pseudogap in the Doped Hubbard Model at Finite Temperature

The interplay between thermal and quantum fluctuations controls the competition between phases of matter in strongly correlated electron systems. We study finite-temperature properties of the strongly coupled two-dimensional doped Hubbard model using the minimally entangled typical thermal states me...

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Autores principales: Alexander Wietek, Yuan-Yao He, Steven R. White, Antoine Georges, E. Miles Stoudenmire
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Publicado: American Physical Society 2021
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Sumario:The interplay between thermal and quantum fluctuations controls the competition between phases of matter in strongly correlated electron systems. We study finite-temperature properties of the strongly coupled two-dimensional doped Hubbard model using the minimally entangled typical thermal states method on width-four cylinders. We discover that a phase characterized by commensurate short-range antiferromagnetic correlations and no charge ordering occurs at temperatures above the half-filled stripe phase extending to zero temperature. The transition from the antiferromagnetic phase to the stripe phase takes place at temperature T/t≈0.05 and is accompanied by a steplike feature of the specific heat. We find the single-particle gap to be smallest close to the nodal point at k=(π/2,π/2) and detect a maximum in the magnetic susceptibility. These features bear a strong resemblance to the pseudogap phase of high-temperature cuprate superconductors. The simulations are verified using a variety of different unbiased numerical methods in the three limiting cases of zero temperature, small lattice sizes, and half filling. Moreover, we compare to and confirm previous determinantal quantum Monte Carlo results on incommensurate spin-density waves at finite doping and temperature.