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Continuous Mott Transition in a Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2014-08-19 v2

Abstract

We investigate nonmagnetic metal-insulator transition in the 1/5-depleted square lattice Hubbard model at half-filling within the 8-site cellular dynamical mean field theory. We find that a metal-insulator transition without any signatures of the first order transition, a continuous Mott transition, takes place in a certain range of parameters. The nature of the continuous Mott transition is nothing but a Lifshitz transition driven by the on-site Coulomb interaction. The renormalized matrix elements of hoppings and the spin-spin correlation functions reveal that physics of this transition is strong enhancement of the dimerization due to the non-local effects of electron-electron interaction.

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@article{arxiv.1403.1743,
  title  = {Continuous Mott Transition in a Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model},
  author = {Yuki Yanagi and Kazuo Ueda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.1743},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

6 pages, 6 figures, text and figures have been revised, published in Phys. Rev. B

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