Frustration in the charge transfer salt superconductors

Roser Valenti

University of Frankfurt, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Germany

Intense experimental and theoretical studies have demonstrated that the anisotropic triangularlattice as realized in the Kappa -(BEDT-TTF)2X family of organic charge transfer (CT) salts yields a complex phase diagram with magnetic, superconducting, Mott insulating and even spin liquid phases. With extensive density functional theory and molecular dynamics calculations we refresh the link between manybody theory and experiment by determining hopping parameters of the underlying Hubbard model. This leads us to revise the widely used semiempirical parameters in the direction of less frustrated, more anisotropic triangular lattices. The implications of these results on the systems' description will be discussed.

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