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The intermediate and spin-liquid phase of the half-filled honeycomb Hubbard model

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2015-06-18 v1

Abstract

We obtain the phase-diagram of the half-filled honeycomb Hubbard model with density matrix embedding theory, to address recent controversy at intermediate couplings. We use clusters from 2-12 sites and lattices at the thermodynamic limit. We identify a paramagnetic insulating state, with possible hexagonal cluster order, competitive with the antiferromagnetic phase at intermediate coupling. However, its stability is strongly cluster and lattice size dependent, explaining controver- sies in earlier work. Our results support the paramagnetic insulator as being a metastable, rather than a true, intermediate phase, in the thermodynamic limit.

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@article{arxiv.1402.5622,
  title  = {The intermediate and spin-liquid phase of the half-filled honeycomb Hubbard model},
  author = {Qiaoni Chen and George H. Booth and Sandeep Sharma and Gerald Knizia and Garnet Kin-Lic Chan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.5622},
  year   = {2015}
}