Long-Period Charge Correlations in Charge-Frustrated Molecular theta-(BEDT-TTF)2X

Abstract

Charge ordering (CO) with long-periodicities in a geometrically frustrated system, theta-(BEDT-TTF)2X, is numerically studied. We consider interacting fermion models on the anisotropic triangular lattice: the extended Hubbard model and the spinless fermion model, taking account of the inter-site Coulomb interactions on not only the nearest neighbor (NN) but also the next nearest neighbor (NNN) bonds. By applying Lanczos exact diagonalization method, we find that long-period charge correlations become dominant when NNN terms are included, in the charge-frustrated region. The calculated optical excitation spectra show that the charge transfer excitations in the long-period CO extend to a lower energy range compared to those in the short-period CO states including the 3-fold CO stabilized when NNN terms are absent. Our results suggest that the charge correlations experimentally observed in the title compounds near the CO insulating phase can be viewed as a tendency toward `tilted stripe'-type CO with large charge fluctuations.

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