Ferromagnetism and electron pairing in tetrahedral Hubbard clusters
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Abstract
The canonical and grand canonical calculations in exactly solvable three dimensional tetrahedrons elucidate the origin of Mott-Hubbard-like transition, electron pairing and ferromagnetism in frustrated Hubbard clusters. The thermal properties of planar and tetrahedral clusters in magnetic field with one hole off half-filling provide a rigorous proof for the existence of Mott-Hubbard type insulators with spontaneous magnetization in the ground state and finite temperatures. Rigorous conditions for electron pairing instability and phase separation in frustrated tetrahedral cluster for all $U>0$ is also provided. We show that Nagaoka-type spin flip instability with ``unsaturated ferromagnetism'' is equivalent to electron charge and spin pairing instabilities with minimal, zero {\it spin}. The theory gives strong evidence for existence of charge- spin separation in three dimensional clusters and calculated phase diagram for condensation crossover temperatures at various instabilities encompass a number of phases recently discovered in clusters, small nanoparticles, transition metal oxides and high T$_c$ cuprates.
Authors
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Armen Kocharian
Department of Physics and Astronomy, California State University
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Gayanath Fernando
University of Connecticut, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut
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Tun Wang
Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, Univ. of Connecticut
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Kalum Palandage
University of Connecticut, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut