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The two-dimensional Hubbard model exhibits superconductivity with d-wave symmetry even at half-filling in the presence of next-nearest neighbor hopping. Using plaquette cluster dynamical mean-field theory with a continuous-time quantum…
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We discuss the optical conductivity of several non-interacting two-dimensional (2D) semiconducting systems focusing on gapped Dirac and Schr\"odinger fermions as well as on a system mixing these two types. Close to the band-gap, we can…
We study the linear optical absorption of bulk semiconductors in the presence of a homogeneous constant (dc) electric field with an approach suitable for including excitonic effects while working with many-band models. The absorption…
A method to calculate the one-body Green's function for ground states of correlated electron materials is formulated by extending the variational Monte Carlo method. We benchmark against the exact diagonalization (ED) for the one- and…
The far-infrared in-plane reflectivity of the organic superconductor $\alpha_t$-(BEDT-TTF)$_{2}$I$_{3}$ is measured down to frequencies of 10 cm$^{-1}$; the optical conductivity is obtained by a Kramers-Kronig procedure. In the…
We derive analytical expressions for the spectral moments of the dynamical response functions of the Hubbard model using the high-temperature series expansion. We consider generic dimension $d$ as well as the infinite-$d$ limit, arbitrary…
We demonstrate that most features ascribed to strong correlation effects in various spectroscopies of the cuprates are captured by a calculation of the self-energy incorporating effects of spin and charge fluctuations. The self energy is…
Using the Ogata-Shiba wave function, the spectral functions of the one-dimensional infinite U Hubbard model are calculated for various concentrations. It is shown that the ``shadow band'' feature due to 2k_F fluctuations becomes more…
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Diagonal and off-diagonal optical conductivity spectra have been determined form the measured reflectivity and magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) over a broad range of photon energy in the itinerant ferromagnetic phase of CuCr$_2$Se$_4$ at…
Starting from a three dimensional Hamiltonian, we study the optical properties of ultra-thin topological insulator slabs for which the coupling between Dirac fermions on opposite surfaces results in two degenerated gapped hyperbolic bands.…