Singlet Stripe Phases in the planar t-J Model
Abstract
The energies of singlet stripe phases in which a plane is broken up into spin liquid ladders by lines of holes, is examined. If the holes were static then patterns containing spin liquids with a finite spin gap are favored. The case of dynamic holes is treated by assembling t-J ladders oriented perpendicular to the stripes. For a wide region around
J/t≈1
the hole-hole correlations in a single ladder are found to be predominantly charge density wave type but an attraction between hole pairs on adjacent ladders leads to a stripe phase. A quantum mechanical melting of the hole lines at smaller
J/t
values leads to a Bose condensate of hole pairs, i.e. a superconducting phase.