Issue |
EPL
Volume 84, Number 5, December 2008
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Article Number | 57001 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/84/57001 | |
Published online | 24 November 2008 |
Metallicity in the half-filled Holstein-Hubbard model
1
Institute for Physics, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University Greifswald - D-17487 Greifswald, Germany, EU
2
Computing Center, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg - D-91058 Erlangen, Germany, EU
3
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Leibniz University Hannover - D-30167 Hannover, Germany, EU
Corresponding author: holger.fehske@physik.uni-greifswald.de
Received:
6
August
2008
Accepted:
21
October
2008
We re-examine the Peierls insulator to Mott insulator transition scenario in the one-dimensional Holstein-Hubbard model where, at half-filling, electron-phonon and electron-electron interactions compete for establishing charge- and spin-density-wave states, respectively. By means of large-scale density-matrix renormalization group calculations we determine the spin, single-particle and two-particle excitation gaps and prove —in the course of a careful finite-size scaling analysis— recent claims for an intervening metallic phase in the weak-coupling regime. We show that for large phonon frequencies the metallic region is even more extended than previously expected, and subdivided into ordinary Luttinger-liquid and bipolaronic-liquid phases.
PACS: 71.30.+h – Metal-insulator transitions and other electronic transitions / 71.10.Hf – Non-Fermi-liquid ground states, electron phase diagrams and phase transitions in model systems / 71.38.-k – Polarons and electron-phonon interactions
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