Strongly correlated ladders in K-doped $p$-terphenyl crystals
| Autor: | Sous, John, Gadjieva, Natalia A., Nuckolls, Colin, Reichman, David R., Millis, Andrew J. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Zdroj: | Nano Lett. 21, 9573 (2021) |
| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c03236 |
| Popis: | Potassium-doped terphenyl has recently attracted attention as a potential host for high-transition-temperature superconductivity. Here, we elucidate the many-body electronic structure of recently synthesized potassium-doped terphenyl crystals. We show that this system may be understood as a set of weakly coupled one-dimensional ladders. Depending on the strength of the inter-ladder coupling the system may exhibit spin-gapped valence-bond solid or antiferromagnetic phases, both of which upon hole doping may give rise to superconductivity. This terphenyl-based ladder material serves as a new platform for investigating the fate of ladder phases in presence of three-dimensional coupling as well as for novel superconductivity. Comment: 6 pages main text + 3 pages supplementary information, 4 figures main text |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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