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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 90, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.90.094506
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- UCOP
- CNRS(France)-UC Davis EPOCAL LIA joint research grant
- CNRS-CQT LIA FSQL
- [NNSA-DE-NA0001842-0]
- [NSF-PIF-1005503]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1005503] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Physics [1005503] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The physics of strongly correlated quantum particles within a flat band was originally explored as a route to itinerant ferromagnetism and, indeed, a celebrated theorem by Lieb rigorously establishes that the ground state of the repulsive Hubbard model on a bipartite lattice with an unequal number of sites in each sublattice must have nonzero spin S at half filling. Recently, there has been interest in Lieb geometries due to the possibility of topological insulator, nematic, and Bose-Einstein condensed (BEC) phases. In this paper, we extend the understanding of the attractive Hubbard model on the Lieb lattice by using determinant quantum Monte Carlo to study real space charge and pair correlation functions not addressed by the Lieb theorems. Specifically, our results show unusual charge and charge transfer signatures within the flat band, and a reduction in pairing order at rho = 2/3 and rho = 4/3, the points at which the flat band is first occupied and then completely filled. We compare our results to the case of flat bands in the Kagome lattice and demonstrate that the behavior observed in the two cases is rather different.
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