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We study an extended Hubbard model with the nearest-neighbor Coulomb interaction on the pyrochlore lattice at half filling. An interaction-driven insulating phase with nontrivial Z_2 invariants emerges at the Hartree-Fock mean-field level…
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Using the determinant quantum Monte Carlo method, we investigate the metal-insulator transition in the interacting disordered Hubbard model of a Lieb lattice, in which the system characterizes the flat band centered at the Fermi level. By…
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Using the strong coupling diagram technique, we find three phases of the half-filled isotropic Hubbard model on a triangular lattice at finite temperatures. The weak-interaction ($U\lesssim5t$) and strong-interaction ($U\gtrsim9t$) phases…