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Using a realistic band structure for twisted WSe$_2 $ materials, we develop a theory for the interaction-driven correlated insulators to conducting metals transitions through the tuning of the filling factor around commensurate fractional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-25 Haining Pan , Sankar Das Sarma

We study by dynamical mean field theory the ground state of a quarter-filled Hubbard model of two bands with different bandwidths. At half-filling, this model is known to display an orbital selective Mott transition, with the narrower band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-11 Francesco Grandi , Adriano Amaricci , Massimo Capone , Michele Fabrizio

We present a study of the influence of disorder on the Mott metal-insulator transition for the organic charge-transfer salt $\kappa$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$Cu[N(CN)$_2$]Cl. To this end, disorder was introduced into the system in a controlled way by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-17 Elena Gati , Ulrich Tutsch , Ammar Naji , Markus Garst , Sebastian Köhler , Harald Schubert , Takahiko Sasaki , Michael Lang

We present the carrier transport properties in the vicinity of a doping-driven Mott transition observed at a field-effect transistor (FET) channel using a single crystal of the typical two-dimensional organic Mott insulator…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-13 Yoshiaki Sato , Yoshitaka Kawasugi , Masayuki Suda , Hiroshi M. Yamamoto , Reizo Kato

The metal-insulator transition (MIT) remains among the most thoroughly studied phenomena in solid state physics, but the complexity of the phenomena, which usually involves cooperation of many degrees of freedom including orbitals,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-29 Kristjan Haule , Gheorghe L. Pascut

Moir\'e transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) materials provide an ideal playground for studying the combined interplay of strong interactions and band-topology over a range of electronic fillings. Here we investigate the panoply of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-22 Juan Felipe Mendez-Valderrama , Sunghoon Kim , Debanjan Chowdhury

The moir\'e pattern induced by lattice mismatch in transition-metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers causes the formation of flat bands, where interactions dominate the kinetic energy. At fractional fillings of the flat valence band, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-07 Yuting Tan , Pak Ki Henry Tsang , Vladimir Dobrosavljević , Louk Rademaker

At total filling factor $\nu=1$ quantum Hall bilayers can have an ordered ground state with spontaneous interlayer phase coherence. The ordered state is signaled experimentally by dramatically enhanced interlayer tunnel conductances at low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-06 Jung-Jung Su , Allan H. MacDonald

The ground state phase diagram of the half-filled repulsive Hubbard model in a bilayer is investigated using cluster dynamical mean field theory. For weak to intermediate values of Coulomb repulsion $U$, the system undergoes a transition…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 S. S. Kancharla , S. Okamoto

We investigate the superconductor-insulator transition (SIT) in disordered quasi-one dimensional systems using the density-matrix renormalization group method. Focusing on the case of an interacting spinful Hamiltonian at quarter-filling,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-24 Mi-Ji Liang , Yong-Feng Yang , Chen Cheng , Rubem Mondaini

A brief review of metal-insulator transitions in three-dimensional doped semiconductors, with emphasis on the "critical exponent puzzle"; and new experimental findings that signal the possibility of an unexpected metal-insulator transition…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-09-25 Myriam P. Sarachik

The metal-insulator transition (MIT) driven by electronic correlations is a fundamental and challenging problem in condensed-matter physics. Particularly, whether such a transition can be continuous remains open. The emergence of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-24 Yanhao Tang , Jie Gu , Song Liu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , James C. Hone , Kin Fai Mak , Jie Shan

Metal-insulator transition (MIT) compounds are materials that may exhibit insulating or metallic behavior, depending on the physical conditions, and are of immense fundamental interest owing to their potential applications in emerging…

In contrast to the first-order correlation-driven Mott metal-insulator transition (MIT), contin- uous disorder-driven transitions are intrinsically quantum critical. Here, we investigate transport quantum criticality in the Falicov-Kimball…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-09-21 P. Haldar , M. S. Laad , S. R. Hassan

Electron correlation and topology are two central threads of modern condensed matter physics. Semiconductor moir\'e materials provide a highly tunable platform for studies of electron correlation. Correlation-driven phenomena, including the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Tingxin Li , Shengwei Jiang , Bowen Shen , Yang Zhang , Lizhong Li , Trithep Devakul , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Liang Fu , Jie Shan , Kin Fai Mak

We examine the impact of non-magnetic disorder on the electronic states of a multilayer structure comprising layers of both topological and conventional band insulators. Employing the Burkov-Balents model with renormalized tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-25 Z. Z. Alisultanov , A. Kudlis

We present a theory describing the mechanism for the two-dimensional (2D) metal-insulator transition (MIT) in absence of disorder. A two-band Hubbard model is introduced, describing vacancy-interstitial pair excitations within the Wigner…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-02-15 S. Pankov , V. Dobrosavljevic

We study the electronic structure, magnetic state, and phase stability of paramagnetic BiNiO$_3$ near a pressure-induced Mott insulator-to-metal transition (MIT) by employing a combination of density functional and dynamical mean-field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-06 I. Leonov , A. S. Belozerov , S. L. Skornyakov

Magnetic and electric properties of the Hubbard model with binary alloy disorder are studied within the dynamical mean--field theory. A paramagnet--ferromagnet phase transition and a Mott--Hubbard metal--insulator transition are observed…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Krzysztof Byczuk , Martin Ulmke

Metal-insulator transitions in clean, crystalline solids can be driven by two distinct mechanisms. In a conventional insulator, the charge carrier concentration vanishes, when an energy gap separates filled and unfilled electronic states.…