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Fate of Quasiparticle at Mott Transition and Interplay with Lifshitz Transition Studied by Correlator Projection Method
Filling-control metal-insulator transition on the two-dimensional Hubbard
model is investigated by using the correlator projection method, which takes
into account momentum dependence of the free energy beyond the dynamical
mean-field theory. The phase diagram of metals and Mott insulators is analyzed.
Lifshitz transitions occur simultaneously with metal-insulator transitions at
large Coulomb repulsion. On the other hand, they are separated each other for
lower Coulomb repulsion, where the phase sandwiched by the Lifshitz and
metal-insulator transitions appears to show violation of the Luttinger sum
rule. Through the metal-insulator transition, quasiparticles retain nonzero
renormalization factor and finite quasi-particle weight in the both sides of
the transition. This supports that the metal-insulator transition is caused not
by the vanishing renormalization factor but by the relative shift of the Fermi
level into the Mott gap away from the quasiparticle band, in sharp contrast
with the original dynamical mean-field theory. Charge compressibility diverges
at the critical end point of the first-order Lifshitz transition at finite
temperatures. The origin of the divergence is ascribed to singular momentum
dependence of the quasiparticle dispersion.Comment: 24 pages including 10 figure
Superconductivity from Flat Dispersion Designed in Doped Mott Insulators
Routes to enhance superconducting instability are explored for doped Mott
insulators. With the help of insights for criticalities of metal-insulator
transitions, geometrical design of lattice structure is proposed to control the
instability. A guideline is to explicitly make flat band dispersions near the
Fermi level without suppressing two-particle channels. In a one-dimensional
model, numerical studies show that our prescription with finite-ranged hoppings
realizes large enhancement of spin-gap and pairing dominant regions. We also
propose several multi-band systems, where the pairing is driven by intersite
Coulomb repulsion.Comment: 4 pages, to be published in Phys. Rev. Let
Possible Kondo resonance in PrFe4P12 studied by bulk-sensitive photoemission
Pr 4f electronic states in Pr-based filled skutterudites PrT4X12(T=Fe and Ru;
X=P and Sb) have been studied by high-resolution bulk-sensitive Pr 3d-4f
resonance photoemission. A very strong spectral intensity is observed just
below the Fermi level in the heavy-fermion system PrFe4P12. The increase of its
intensity at lower temperatures is observed. We speculate that this is the
Kondo resonance of Pr, the origin of which is attributed to the strong
hybridization between the Pr 4f and the conduction electrons.Comment: 4 pages(camera ready format), 4 figures, ReVTeX
Electronic structures of CrX (X=S, Te) studied by Cr 2p soft x-ray magnetic circular dichroism
Cr 2p core excited XAS and XMCD spectra of ferromagnetic CrTe
with several concentrations of =0.11-0.33 and ferrimagnetic
CrS have been measured. The observed XMCD lineshapes are found to
very weakly depend on for CrTe. The experimental results
are analyzed by means of a configuration-interaction cluster model calculation
with consideration of hybridization and electron correlation effects. The
obtained values of the spin magnetic moment by the cluster model analyses are
in agreement with the results of the band structure calculation.The calculated
result shows that the doped holes created by the Cr deficiency exist mainly in
the Te 5porbital of CrTe, whereas the holes are likely to be in Cr
3d state for CrS.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review
Insulator-Metal Transition in the One and Two-Dimensional Hubbard Models
We use Quantum Monte Carlo methods to determine Green functions,
, on lattices up to for the 2D Hubbard model
at . For chemical potentials, , within the Hubbard gap, , and at {\it long} distances, , with critical behavior: , . This result stands in agreement with the
assumption of hyperscaling with correlation exponent and dynamical
exponent . In contrast, the generic band insulator as well as the
metal-insulator transition in the 1D Hubbard model are characterized by and .Comment: 9 pages (latex) and 5 postscript figures. Submitted for publication
in Phys. Rev. Let
Quantum Mott Transition and Multi-Furcating Criticality
Phenomenological theory of the Mott transition is presented. When the
critical temperature of the Mott transition is much higher than the quantum
degeneracy temperature, the transition is essentially described by the Ising
universality class. Below the critical temperature, phase separation or
first-order transition occurs. However, if the critical point is involved in
the Fermi degeneracy region, a marginal quantum critical point appears at zero
temperature. The originally single Mott critical point generates subsequent
many unstable fixed points through various Fermi surface instabilities induced
by the Mott criticality characterized by the diverging charge susceptibility or
doublon susceptibility. This occurs in marginal quantum-critical region.
Charge, magnetic and superconducting instabilitites compete severely under
these critical charge fluctuations. The quantum Mott transition triggers
multi-furcating criticality, which goes beyond the conventional concept of
multicriticality in quantum phase transitions. Near the quantum Mott
transition, the criticality generically drives growth of inhomogeneous
structure in the momentum space with singular points of flat dispersion on the
Fermi surface. The singular points determine the quantum dynamics of the Mott
transition by the dynamical exponent . We argue that many of
filling-control Mott transitions are classified to this category. Recent
numerical results as well as experimental results on strongly correlated
systems including transition metal oxides, organic materials and He layer
adsorbed on a substrate are consistently analyzed especially in two-dimensional
systems.Comment: 28 pages including 2 figure
Magnetic and Metal-Insulator Transitions through Bandwidth Control in Two-Dimensional Hubbard Models with Nearest and Next-Nearest Neighbor Transfers
Numerical studies on Mott transitions caused by the control of the ratio
between bandwidth and electron-electron interaction () are reported. By
using the recently proposed path-integral renormalization group(PIRG)
algorithm, physical properties near the transitions in the ground state of
two-dimensional half-filled models with the nearest and the next-nearest
neighbor transfers ( and , respectively) are studied as a prototype of
geometrically frustrated system. The nature of the bandwidth-control
transitions shows sharp contrast with that of the filling-control transitions:
First, the metal-insulator and magnetic transitions are separated each other
and the metal-insulator (MI) transition occurs at smaller , although the
both transition interactions increase with increasing . Both
transitions do not contradict the first-order transitions for smaller
while the MI transitions become continuous type accompanied by emergence of
{\it unusual metallic phase} near the transition for large . A
nonmagnetic insulator phase is stabilized between MI and AF transitions. The
region of the nonmagnetic insulator becomes wider with increasing . The
phase diagram naturally connects two qualitatively different limits, namely the
Hartree-Fock results at small and speculations in the strong coupling
Heisenberg limit.Comment: 30 pages including 20 figure
Thermodynamic Relations in Correlated Systems
Several useful thermodynamic relations are derived for metal-insulator
transitions, as generalizations of the Clausius-Clapeyron and Eherenfest
theorems. These relations hold in any spatial dimensions and at any
temperatures. First, they relate several thermodynamic quantities to the slope
of the metal-insulator phase boundary drawn in the plane of the chemical
potential and the Coulomb interaction in the phase diagram of the Hubbard
model. The relations impose constraints on the critical properties of the Mott
transition. These thermodynamic relations are indeed confirmed to be satisfied
in the cases of the one- and two-dimensional Hubbard models. One of these
relations yields that at the continuous Mott transition with a diverging charge
compressibility, the doublon susceptibility also diverges. The constraints on
the shapes of the phase boundary containing a first-order metal-insulator
transition at finite temperatures are clarified based on the thermodynamic
relations. For example, the first-order phase boundary is parallel to the
temperature axis asymptotically in the zero temperature limit. The
applicability of the thermodynamic relations are not restricted only to the
metal-insulator transition of the Hubbard model, but also hold in correlated
systems with any types of phases in general. We demonstrate such examples in an
extended Hubbard model with intersite Coulomb repulsion containing the charge
order phase.Comment: 10 pages, 9 figure
Large magnetic circular dichroism in resonant inelastic x-ray scattering at the Mn L-edge of Mn-Zn ferrite
We report resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) excited by circularly
polarized x-rays on Mn-Zn ferrite at the Mn L2,3-resonances. We demonstrate
that crystal field excitations, as expected for localized systems, dominate the
RIXS spectra and thus their dichroic asymmetry cannot be interpreted in terms
of spin-resolved partial density of states, which has been the standard
approach for RIXS dichroism. We observe large dichroic RIXS at the L2-resonance
which we attribute to the absence of metallic core hole screening in the
insulating Mn-ferrite. On the other hand, reduced L3-RIXS dichroism is
interpreted as an effect of longer scattering time that enables spin-lattice
core hole relaxation via magnons and phonons occurring on a femtosecond time
scale.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures,
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.74.17240
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