American Physical Society, Physical review B, 6(74), 2006
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.74.064429
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We explore both analytically and numerically the properties of doped t-J models on a class of highly frustrated lattices, such as the kagomé and the pyrochlore lattices. Focusing on a particular sign of the hopping integral and antiferromagnetic exchange, we find a generic symmetry-breaking instability toward a twofold-degenerate ground state at a fractional filling below half filling. These states show modulated bond strengths and only break lattice symmetries. They can be seen as a generalization of the well-known valence bond solid states to fractional filling.