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Optical Conductivity in Mott-Hubbard Systems

Condensed Matter 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

We study the transfer of spectral weight in the optical spectra of a strongly correlated electron system as a function of temperature and interaction strength. Within a dynamical mean field theory of the Hubbard model that becomes exact in the limit of large lattice coordination, we predict an anomalous enhancement of spectral weight as a function of temperature in the correlated metallic state and report on experimental measurements which agree with this prediction in V2O3V_2O_3. We argue that the optical conductivity anomalies in the metal are connected to the proximity to a crossover region in the phase diagram of the model.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9507002,
  title  = {Optical Conductivity in Mott-Hubbard Systems},
  author = {M. J. Rozenberg and G. Kotliar and H. Kajueter and G. A. Thomas and D. H. Rapkine and J. M. Honig and P. Metcalf},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9507002},
  year   = {2009}
}

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12 pages and 4 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett., v 75, p 105 (1995)