Role of antiferromagnetic fluctuations on charge ordering and superconductivity as viewed through quantal phases.pdfVIP

Physica C 388–389 (2003) 35–36 /locate/physc Role of antiferromagnetic ?uctuations on charge ordering and superconductivity as viewed through quantal phases Akihiro Tanaka *, Xiao Hu Computational Materials Science Center, National Institute for Materials Science, Sengen 1-2-1, Tsukuba 305-0047, Japan Abstract Using nonperturbative methods which invoke the notion of quantal (Berry) phases, we investigate the role played by antiferromagnteic ?uctuations on charge ordering and superconductivity for quasi-1d and -2d spin-gapped systems. ó 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. Keywords: Berry phase; Superconductivity; Stripe; Duality 1. Introduction Quantal phase, or Berry phase is the imaginary part of the Euclidean action which occasionally turns up in various quantum systems. The partition function would generally bear the form, Z Z?/er; sT? ? D?/?eàS?/?eiSBerry?/?: e1T have motivated us to reexamine this issue, and we ?nd some important di?erences. Below we consider the quasi-1d case, which applies to the spin-Peierls compound CuGeO3 and the 2d case, with a direct relevance to the cuprate high-Tc compounds in turn. 2. Quasi-1d case The extra phase factor coming from the Berry phase will induce quantum mechanical phase interference between con?gurations. Particularly interesting is the case when the interference is destructive; its main e?ect then is to recover classical long ranged behavior which might otherwise be washed out by quantum ?uctuations. A well known example appears in the Haldane gap physics of 1 t 1d antiferromagnets [1], where instanton Berry phases lead to the closing of the energy gap for halfinteger spin systems. Here we will be concerned with the problem of holedoping into spin-gapped systems, with an emphasis on the role of quantal phases. The importance of quantal phases in such situations had been foreseen in works of Shankar [2] and Lee [3]. Recent developments on novel ordering such as stripes in the cuprate oxide compounds * Corres