Single Hole Doped Strongly Correlated Ladder with a Static Impurity

We consider a strongly correlated ladder with diagonal hopping and exchange interactions described by t − J type hamiltonian. We study the dynamics of a single hole in this model in the presence of a static non-magnetic (or magnetic) impurity. In the case of a non-magnetic (NM) impurity we solve the problem analytically both in the triplet (S=1) and singlet (S=0) sectors. In the triplet sector the hole doesn't form any bound state with the impurity. However, in the singlet sector the hole forms bound states of different symmetries with increasing J/t values. Binding energies of those impurity-hole bound states are compared with the binding energy of a pair of holes in absence of any impurity. In the case of magnetic impurity the analytical eigenvalue equations are solved for a large (50 X 2) lattice. In this case also, with increasing J/t values, impurity-hole bound states of different symmetries are obtained. Binding of the hole with the impurity is favoured for the case of a ferromagnetic (FM) impurity than in the case of antiferromag-netic (AFM) impurity. However binding energy is found to be maximum for the NM impurity. Comparison of binding energies and various impurity-hole correlation functions indicates a pair breaking mechanism by NM impurity.