We investigate the effects of magnetic fields on excitonic condensation in the extended Falicov-Kimball model, which is a spinless two-orbital Hubbard model with orbital splitting. In lattice systems under magnetic fields up to several tens of teslas, Zeeman effects on electron spins have been extensively studied, while the impact on orbital motion has often been considered negligible. However, the recent capability to generate ultra-high magnetic fields exceeding 1000 T has renewed interest in understanding their influence on ordered phases in correlated electron systems, beyond spin-related phenomena. To examine these effects, we incorporate a magnetic field into the extended Falicov-Kimball model by introducing the Peierls phase into the transfer integrals, enabling the study of orbital motion. Using the Hartree-Fock approximation, we reveal a nonmonotonic response of the excitonic order parameter to increasing magnetic fields. At sufficiently high fields, the excitonic order is suppressed, resulting in a disordered insulating state characterized by partial occupation of the two orbitals with nonzero Chern numbers. This state is distinct from a fully orbital-polarized configuration. Furthermore, our analysis of an excitonic supersolid phase, in which excitonic and orbital orders coexist, demonstrates that orbital order remains robust under magnetic fields, while excitonic condensation is suppressed. These findings provide insights into the interplay between orbital motion and magnetic fields in multi-orbital correlated electron systems.
Using the density matrix renormalization group technique we study the effect of spin-orbit coupling on a three-orbital Hubbard model in the
(t2g)4 sector and in one dimension. Fixing the Hund coupling to a robust value compatible with some multiorbital materials, we present the phase diagram varying the Hubbard
U and spin-orbit coupling $\ensuremath{\lambda}$, at zero temperature. Our results are shown to be qualitatively similar to those recently reported using the dynamical mean-field theory in higher dimensions, providing a robust basis to approximate many-body techniques. Among many results, we observe an interesting transition from an orbital-selective Mott phase to an excitonic insulator with increasing $\ensuremath{\lambda}$ at intermediate
U. In the strong
U coupling limit, we find a nonmagnetic insulator with an effective angular momentum $\ensuremath{\langle}{({\mathbf{J}}^{\mathrm{eff}})}^{2}\ensuremath{\rangle}\ensuremath{\ne}0$ near the excitonic phase, smoothly connected to the $\ensuremath{\langle}{({\mathbf{J}}^{\mathrm{eff}})}^{2}\ensuremath{\rangle}=0$ regime. We also provide a list of quasi-one-dimensional materials where the physics discussed in this paper could be realized.
Excitonic condensation and stripe formation are two distinct manifestations of electronic correlations. While excitonic order naturally arises in multi-orbital systems, stripe order is a prominent feature of doped correlated-electron models. Here, we investigate an excitonic analogue of stripe order in the two--orbital Hubbard-Kanamori model on the square lattice, characterized by a spatial modulation of inter-orbital particle-hole coherence and, in the orbital-parity-symmetric limit, spontaneous breaking of a relative orbital
Z2 symmetry. Using unrestricted real-space Hartree-Fock calculations complemented by random-phase-approximation instability analysis, we determine how the Kanamori interactions select different excitonic channels. The sign of Hund's exchange controls the spin character of the condensate: ferromagnetic Hund coupling favors triplet excitonic order, whereas antiferromagnetic Hund coupling stabilizes singlet excitonic order. Upon doping, commensurate excitonic density waves develop incommensurate textures, including excitonic stripes and, in the triplet sector, spiral excitonic density waves. We further show that crystal-field splitting strongly reorganizes the excitonic instability by modifying inter-orbital nesting and can stabilize triplet excitonic order even in the absence of pair hopping. Our results establish excitonic stripes as a distinct symmetry-broken state of multi-orbital correlated systems and identify microscopic routes for their stabilization.
Optical responses in an excitonic insulating (EI) system with strong electron correlation are studied. We adopt the two-orbital Hubbard model with a finite energy difference between the two orbitals where the spin state degree of freedom exists. This model is analyzed by the variational cluster approach. In order to include the local electron correlation effect, the vertex correction is taken into account in the formulation of the optical conductivity spectra. We calculate a finite-temperature phase diagram in which an EI phase appears between a low-spin band insulating state and a high-spin Mott insulating state. Characteristic components of the optical conductivity spectra consisting of a sharp peak and continuum appear in the EI phase. Integrated intensity almost follows the order parameter of the EI state, suggesting that this component is available to identify the EI phases and transitions.
The condensation of spin-orbit-induced excitons in
t2g4 electronic systems is attracting considerable attention. At large Hubbard
U, antiferromagnetism was proposed to emerge from the Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC) of triplons (
Jeff=1). Here, we show that even at intermediate
U regimes, the spin-orbit exciton condensation is possible leading also to staggered magnetic order. The canonical electron-hole excitations (excitons) transform into local triplon excitations at large
U, and this BEC strong coupling regime is smoothly connected to the intermediate
U excitonic insulator region. We solved the degenerate three-orbital Hubbard model with spin-orbit coupling ($\ensuremath{\lambda}$) in one dimension using the density matrix renormalization group, while in two dimensions we use the Hartree-Fock approximation (HFA). Employing these techniques, we provide the full $\ensuremath{\lambda}$ versus
U phase diagrams for both one- and two-dimensional lattices. Our main result is that at intermediate Hubbard
U, increasing $\ensuremath{\lambda}$ at fixed
U the system transitions from an incommensurate spin-density-wave metal to a Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) excitonic insulator, with coherence length
rcoh of
O(a) and
O(10a) in
1d and
2d, respectively, with
a being the lattice spacing. Further increasing $\ensuremath{\lambda}$, the system eventually crosses over to the BEC limit (with ${r}_{\mathrm{coh}}\ensuremath{\ll}a$).
The variational cluster approximation is used to study the spontaneous symmetry breaking of the excitonic insulator (EI) state in the two-orbital Hubbard model defined on the two-dimensional square lattice. Evaluating the order parameter of the EI state, staggered magnetization, and number of particles on each orbital, we obtain the ground-state phase diagram of the model in a wide parameter space of the intra and interorbital Coulomb interactions. We also calculate the single-particle and anomalous Green's functions. We show that the normal metallic phase is unstable to the formation of the EI state and the EI phase appears in a wide parameter region between the band-insulator and Mott-insulator phases.