| Issue |
EPL
Volume 84, Number 3, November 2008
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| Article Number | 37009 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/84/37009 | |
| Published online | 29 October 2008 | |
Local order and the gapped phase of the Hubbard model: A plaquette dynamical mean-field investigation
1
Theoretische Physik, ETH Zurich - 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
2
Columbia University - 538 West, 120th Street, New York, NY 10027, USA
Corresponding author: gull@itp.phys.ethz.ch
Received:
3
June
2008
Accepted:
1
October
2008
The four-site “DCA” method of including intersite correlations in the dynamical mean-field theory is used to investigate the metal-insulator transition in the Hubbard model. At half-filling a gap-opening transition is found to occur as the interaction strength is increased beyond a critical value. The gapped behavior found in the 4-site DCA approximation is shown to be associated with the onset of strong antiferromagnetic and singlet correlations and the transition is found to be potential energy driven. It is thus more accurately described as a Slater phenomenon
(induced by strong short-range order) than as a Mott phenomenon. Doping the gapped phase leads
to a non
Fermi-liquid state with a Fermi surface only in the nodal
regions and a pseudogap in the antinodal regions at lower dopings x ≲ 0.15 and to a Fermi-liquid phase at higher dopings.
PACS: 71.30.+h – Metal-insulator transitions and other electronic transitions / 71.27.+a – Strongly correlated electron systems; heavy fermions / 71.10.Fd – Lattice fermion models (Hubbard model, etc.)
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