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Physical review. B, Condensed matter

Metal-insulator transition with infinite-range Coulomb coupling: Fractional statistics and quantum critical properties

Carlindo Vitoriano, Lucian Bogdan Bejan, A. M. S. Macêdo, Mauricio D. Coutinho-Filho

Published Mar 15, 2000• 19 citations
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Abstract

We show that the Hubbard model with infinite-range Coulomb coupling is equivalent to an ideal gas of three species of particles obeying fractional exclusion statistics. A full appreciation of this mapping requires an extension of the pertinent formalism. This very simple, but rather peculiar model is exactly solvable in any dimension and exhibits a Mott metal-insulator transition, whose universality class is shown to be that of a free spinless Fermi gas. A modified version of the Luttinger theorem is shown to apply in any dimension. We also characterize the metallic and insulating phases by obtaining the electronic band structure as well as the interacting density of states. The fractional statistics manifests itself on the amplitudes of several thermodynamic quantities and, in particular, the Pauli spin susceptibility is subdominant in all metallic phases, and a Curie-type of response appears.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.61.7941

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Introduction In this chapter we study metal–insulator transitions which occur due to correlations between the charge carriers. This quantum phase transitions results from the competition between kinetic energy and Coulomb repulsion where the latter has the tendency to localise the electrons. The simplest model which describes this competition is the one-band Hubbard model with its two energy scales, the bandwidth W and the Coulomb repulsion U between electrons of opposite spins on the same site. For a fixed density of electrons, n = 1; as the ratio U/W increases, we expect to find a zero-temperature phase transition from a metallic state to an insulator where the electrons are frozen at the lattice sites. The method employed here to investigate this transition is the Gutzwiller approach (Gutzwiller, 1965). This is a variational method which played an important role in providing a framework for the ideas of Mott on the problem of the metal–insulator transition (Mott, 1974). On the metallic side of the transition, this approach describes a metal with renormalised Fermi liquid parameters, essentially with enhanced effective mass and uniform susceptibility. This is the so-called highly correlated electron gas (Brinkman and Rice, 1970) for which the metal oxide V 2 O 3 is the prototype system. In the insulating side, Gutzwiller's approximation yields a noninteracting system of localised electrons. This insulating phase is incompressible , i.e. has zero compressibility and infinite zero temperature susceptibility. The latter is not a consequence of interactions but simply due to the divergence of the Curie susceptibility, χ ∝ 1 /T , of non-interacting moments at T = 0. Then, in Gutzwiller's approach the transition is from a paramagnetic metal to a paramagnetic insulator. We will continue using the designation Mott transition to describe this type of phase transition where the insulating phase has no long-range magnetic order. In real systems, most frequently, localisation due to interactions is accompanied by the appearance of antiferromagnetic order.
Abstract The infinity-range Hubbard model on a d-dimensional hypercubic lattice is mapped onto an ideal gas with three species obeying the Haldane-Wu fractional exclusion statistics (FESs). Using this map, we study this system in the spin-incoherent regime and strong coupling limit. We have derived the polynomial series of the grand-canonical free, whose coefficients are Lerch functions, a signature of our FES description, as demonstrated for the entropy and specific heat in any dimension. For even dimensions the series are finite, and a table of coefficients versus dimensionality can be written, while for odd dimensions, the series diverges asymptotically, and can thus be circumvented by Borel summation.
We discuss the appearance of quantum orders in the Hubbard model for interacting electrons, at half-filling. Such phases do not have local order parameters and need to be characterized by the quantum mechanical properties of their ground state. On one hand, we study the Mott transition from a metal to a spin liquid insulator in two dimensions, of potential relevance to some layered organic compounds. The correlation-driven transition occurs at fixed filling and involves fractionalization of the electron: upon entering the insulator, a Fermi surface of neutral spinons coupled to an internal gauge field emerges. We focus on the transport properties near the quantum critical point and find that the emergent gauge fluctuations play a key role in determining the universal scaling. Second, motivated by a class of three-dimensional transition metal oxides, the pyrochlore iridates, we study the interplay of non-trivial band topology and correlations. Building on the strong spin orbit coupling in these compounds, we construct a general microscopic Hubbard model and determine its mean-field phase diagram, which contains topological insulators, Weyl semimetals, axion insulators and various antiferromagnets. We also discuss the effects many-body correlations on theses phases. We close by examining a fractionalized topological insulator that combines the two main themes of the thesis: fractionalization and non-trivial band topology. Specifically, we study how the two-dimensional protected surface states of a topological Mott insulator interact with a three-dimensional emergent gauge field. Various correlation effects on observables are identified.
We study statistical characterization of the many-body states in the exactly solvable model with internal degree of freedom in more than one dimension. The model exhibits the Mott metal-insulator transition. It is shown that the ground state is described by that of a generalized ideal gas of particles (called exclusons) which have mutual exclusion statistics between different species. In addition to giving a perspective view of spin-charge separation, the model constitutes an explicit example of mutual exclusion statistics in more than two dimensions.