The three-chain Hubbard model for Ta2NiSe5 known as a candidate material for the excitonic insulator is investigated over the wide range of energy gap D between the two-fold degenerate conduction bands and the nondegenerate valence band including both semiconducting (D>0) and semimetallic (D<0) cases. In the semimetallic case, the difference of the band degeneracy inevitably causes the imbalance of each Fermi wavenumber, resulting in a remarkable excitonic state characterized by the condensation of excitons with finite center-of-mass momentum q, the so-called Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) excitonic state. With decreasing D corresponding to increasing pressure, the obtained excitonic phase diagram shows a crossover from BEC (D\simg0) to BCS (D\siml0) regime, and then shows a distinct phase transition at a certain critical value Dc(<0) from the uniform (q=0) to the FFLO (q=0) excitonic state, as expected to be observed in Ta2NiSe5 under high pressure.
@article{arxiv.1602.03248,
title = {FFLO Excitonic State in the Three-Chain Hubbard Model for Ta$_2$NiSe$_5$},
author = {Takemi Yamada and Kaoru Domon and Yoshiaki Ōno},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.03248},
year = {2016}
}