Absence of Superconductivity in the Half-filled Anisotropic Triangular Lattice Hubbard Model

Li, H., Clay, R. T., & Mazumdar, S. (2009). Absence of Superconductivity in the Half-filled Anisotropic Triangular Lattice Hubbard Model. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2009 APS March Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA: American Physical Society. 54.

Abstract

The superconducting $\kappa$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$X salts, with one hole per molecular site and strong dimerization are widely thought to have an effective $\frac{1}{2}$-filled band. The presence of antiferromagnetism (AFM) near superconductivity (SC) in their pressure-temperature phase diagram has led to the suggestion suggest that the SC can be explained within an anisotropic triangular lattice $\frac{1}{2}$-filled band Hubbard Hamiltonian. In this model increasing frustration suppresses the AFM transition, and it has been suggested that d-wave SC appears near the metal/AFM interface. We performed exact diagonalizations on a 16-site periodic anisotropic triangular lattice and determined the full phase diagram. We confirm the Mott metal-insulator transition and AFM, change of the AFM wavevector for large anisotropy, and the presence of a non-magnetic insulating phase. We do not find any hint of long range superconducting correlations. In our results the Hubbard $U$ always suppresses the superconducting pair-pair correlations over their non-interacting value. We conclude that the Hubbard model is too simple to explain the SC in organic charge-transfer solids.