Hole correlation and thermodynamic properties of the 2D t-t'-t''-J model

The role of next nearest neighbor (NNN) hopping (t') and next to NNN hopping (t'') on hole pairing and thermodynamic properties such as specific heat, entropy have been investigated using two dimensional (2D) hole-doped t-t'-t''-J model based on exact diagonalization (ED) method. Standard Periodic boundary conditions are applied to minimize error due to finite size effect as the calculations are made using small sized cluster geometry. The attraction between holes increases with the inclusion of third neighbor hopping term. The maximum probability of hole pairing is at NNN site. The system goes to more disordered and ordered state with the increase of long range hopping terms at temperature T≤0.35t and T>0.35t, respectively. A single peak nature is observed in specific heat graph.