https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2018-80650-7
Regular Article
Effects of geometrical frustration on ferromagnetism in the Hubbard model on the generalised Shastry-Sutherland lattice
Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences,
Watsonova 47,
040 01
Košice, Slovakia
a e-mail: farky@saske.sk
Received:
15
November
2017
Received in final form:
12
January
2018
Published online: 2
May
2018
The small-cluster exact-diagonalization calculations and the projector quantum Monte Carlo method are used to examine the competing effects of geometrical frustration and interaction on ferromagnetism in the Hubbard model on the generalised Shastry-Sutherland lattice. It is shown that the geometrical frustration stabilizes the ferromagnetic state at high electron concentrations (n ≳ 7∕4), where strong correlations between ferromagnetism and the shape of the noninteracting density of states are observed. In particular, it is found that ferromagnetism is stabilized for these values of frustration parameters, which lead to the single-peaked noninterating density of states at the band edge. Once, two or more peaks appear in the noninteracting density of states at the band edge the ferromagnetic state is suppressed. This opens a new route towards the understanding of ferromagnetism in strongly correlated systems.
Key words: Solid State and Materials
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