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Myriad phases of the Checkerboard Hubbard Model
The zero temperature phase diagram of the checkerboard Hubbard model is
obtained in the solvable limit in which it consists of weakly coupled square
plaquettes. As a function of the on-site Coulomb repulsion U and the density of
holes per site, x, we demonstrate the existence of at least 16 distinct phases.
For instance, at zero doping, the ground state is a novel d-wave Mott insulator
(d-Mott), which is not adiabatically continuable to a band insulator; by doping
the d-Mott state with holes, depending on the magnitude of U, it gives way to a
d-wave superconducting state, a two-flavor spin-1/2 Fermi liquid (FL), or a
spin-3/2 FL.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, minor revisions, published in Phys. Rev. B as a
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Comment on "Orientational Distribution of Free O-H Groups of Interfacial Water is Exponential"
In a recent letter (PRL,121,246101,2018), Sun et al. reported that combined
MD simulation and sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy (SFG-VS)
measurements led to conclusions of a broad and exponentially decaying
orientational distribution, and the presence of the free O-H group pointing
down to the bulk at the air/water interface. In this comment, we show that
their main conclusions are based on questionable interpretation of the SFG-VS
data presented in the letter [1], and are also contrary to the established data
analysis and interpretations in the literature [2-5].Comment: 2 pages, 0 figure
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