Abstract
In the weak coupling limit, we establish the phase diagram of a two-leg ladder with a unit cell containing both Cu and O atoms, as a function of doping. We use bosonization and design a specific renormalization group procedure to handle the additional degrees of freedom. Significant differences are found with the single orbital case; for purely repulsive interactions, a completely massless quantum critical region is obtained at intermediate carrier concentrations (well inside the bands) where the ground state consists of an incommensurate pattern of orbital currents plus a spin density wave structure.
- Received 3 August 2007
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.76.161101
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