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Effect of Ring Exchange on Orbital Antiferromagnet C. H. Chung, Hae-Young Kee and Yong Baek Kim Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A7 (February 1, 2008) We study the effect of four-particle ring exchange process on orbital antiferromagnetic state that 2 occurs in some correlated electron systems in two dimensions. The primary question is whether the 0 ring exchange process enhances or suppresses the orbital antiferromagnetic ordering. Using the fact 0 that the orbital antiferromagnetic state arises in the large-N limit of the SU (N ) generalization of the 2 t-J model, we consider the large-N limit of the t-J-K model where K represents the four-particle v ring exchange term. The phase diagrams in the large-N mean field theory are obtained for the o half-filling and finite hole concentrations at zero temperature. It is found that the ring exchange in N general favors dimerized states or the inhomogeneous orbital antiferromagnetic state, and suppresses the homogeneous orbital antiferromagnetic state. We compare our results with other related models 4 of strongly correlated systems with ring exchange processes. 1 PACS numbers: 71.10.Hf, 71.10.Fd, 71.30.+h, 75.10.Jm ] l e - r I. INTRODUCTION t s . t Ring exchange interactions are often present in strongly correlated many-particle systems. In the Hubbard model a of electrons with on-site repulsive interaction U ,