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Antiferromagnetism beyond classical percolation threshold in the site-diluted half-filled one-band Hubbard model in three dimensions

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2022-09-14 v1 Materials Science

Abstract

We investigate the impact of site dilution by setting the on-site repulsion strength (UU) to zero at a fraction of sites in the half-filled Hubbard model on a simple cubic lattice. We employ a semi-classical Monte-Carlo approach first to recover the zero dilution (undiluted x=1x=1) properties, including UU dependence of insulator to metal crossover temperature scale TT^* and long-range staggered antiferromagnetic ordering temperature (TNT_N). For the non-perturbative regime of UU \sim bandwidth, we find a rapid suppression of TT^* with reducing xx from 1 to 0.7. However, TNT_N remains unchanged in this dilution range, showing a weakening of the insulating state but not of the magnetic order. At x0.7x \leq 0.7, TT^* and TNT_N coincide and are suppressed together with further increase in site-dilution. Finally, the system loses the magnetic order and the insulating state for x=0.15x=0.15, significantly below the classical percolation threshold xpsc(0.31x_p^{sc} (\sim 0.31). We show that the induced moments on U=0U=0 sites drive the magnetic order below the classical percolation limit by studying local moment systematics and finite-size analysis of magnetic order. At the end, we show that either increasing UU to large values or raising temperature beyond a UU dependent critical value, suppresses the induced local moments of the U=0U=0 sites and recovers the classical percolation threshold.

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@article{arxiv.2112.04260,
  title  = {Antiferromagnetism beyond classical percolation threshold in the site-diluted half-filled one-band Hubbard model in three dimensions},
  author = {Sourav Chakraborty and Anamitra Mukherjee and Kalpataru Pradhan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.04260},
  year   = {2022}
}

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7 pages including supplementary information