Bandwidth renormalization due to the intersite Coulomb interaction
Abstract
The theory of correlated electrons is currently moving beyond the paradigmatic Hubbard , towards the investigation of intersite Coulomb interactions. Recent investigations have revealed that these interactions are relevant for the quantitative description of realistic materials. Physically, intersite interactions are responsible for two rather different effects: screening and bandwidth renormalization. We use a variational principle to disentangle the roles of these two processes and study how appropriate the recently proposed Fock treatment of intersite interactions is in correlated systems. The magnitude of this effect in graphene is calculated based on cRPA values of the intersite interaction. We also observe that the most interesting charge fluctuation phenomena actually occur at elevated temperatures, substantially higher than studied in previous investigations.
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@article{arxiv.1901.11257,
title = {Bandwidth renormalization due to the intersite Coulomb interaction},
author = {Yann in 't Veld and Malte Schüler and Tim Wehling and Mikhail I. Katsnelson and Erik G. C. P. van Loon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.11257},
year = {2019}
}
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