The phase transition driven by electron correlations in a Chern insulator is investigated within the dynamical mean-field theory. The Chern insulator is described by the Haldane model and the electron correlations are incorporated by introducing the short-range interaction between the itinerant electrons and localized fermions. In the preservation of the inversion symmetry, the electron correlations drive the system from the Chern insulator to a renormalized pseudogap metal, and then to the topologically trivial Mott insulator. When the inversion symmetry is broken, a charge ordering and a nontrivial Chern topological invariant coexist.
@article{arxiv.1312.6771,
title = {Correlation-driven phase transition in a Chern insulator},
author = {Hong-Son Nguyen and Minh-Tien Tran},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.6771},
year = {2013}
}