https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2008-00150-9
Superfrustration of charge degrees of freedom
Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam,
Valckenierstraat 65, 1018 XE Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Corresponding authors: a lhuijse@science.uva.nl - b kjs@science.uva.nl
Received:
5
September
2007
Published online:
11
April
2008
We review recent results, obtained with P. Fendley, on frustration of quantum charges in lattice models for itinerant fermions with strong repulsive interactions. A judicious tuning of kinetic and interaction terms leads to models possessing supersymmetry. In such models frustration takes the form of what we call superfrustration: an extensive degeneracy of supersymmetric ground states. We present a gallery of examples of superfrustration on a variety of 2D lattices.
PACS: 05.30.-d – Quantum statistical mechanics / 11.30.Pb – Supersymmetry / 71.27.+a – Strongly correlated electron systems; heavy fermions
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2008
