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Physical review. B, Condensed matter

Existence of a ferroelectric ground state with a spontaneous polarization in the Falicov-Kimball model

Pavol Farkašovský

Published Apr 15, 1999• 28 citations
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Abstract

The extrapolation of small-cluster exact-diagonalization calculations is used to examine the possibility of electronic ferroelectricity in the one-dimensional spinless and spin-one-half Falicov-Kimball model (FKM). It is found that neither the spinless nor the spin-one-half version of the FKM allows for a ferroelectric ground state with a spontaneous polarization, i.e., there is no nonvanishing $〈{d}^{+}f〉$ expectation value for vanishing hybridization V.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.59.9707

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The one-dimensional spinless Falicov–Kimball (FKM) model is studied in the strong coupling limit away from half-filling. The small-cluster exact-diagonalization calculations are employed to obtain valence transitions in the ground state and for finite temperatures. It is found that in the ground state, the model describes continuous valence transitions for small band-fillings and both continuous and discontinuous transitions near half-filling. At finite temperatures, only continuous valence transitions are obtained. The valence is integer at low temperatures for small band-fillings and in other cases, it takes only intermediate values.
We obtain exact ground states for the spinless Falicov-Kimball model with hybridization in one dimension (d=1).(d=1).(d=1). Ground-state energies and their corresponding wave functions are given for a restricted region of the parameter space in the limit of strong interactions for the half-filling condition. We find that the ground states possess a diagonal long range order and constitute a condensation of excitons in a zero momentum state. On the other hand, the correlation function $A=〈{d}_{i}^{\ifmmode\dagger\else\textdagger\fi{}}{f}_{i}〉$ is purely imaginary, indicating that the ground state does not exhibit spontaneous ferroelectricity.
We consider the excitonic insulator state (often associated with electronic ferroelectricity), which arises on the phase diagram of an extended spinless Falicov-Kimball model (FKM) at half-filling. Within the Hartree--Fock approach, we calculate the spectrum of low-energy collective excitations in this state up to second order in the narrow-band hopping and/or hybridization. This allows to probe the mean-field stability of the excitonic insulator. The latter is found to be unstable when the case of the pure FKM (no hybridization with a fully localized band) is approached. The instability is due to the presence of another, lower-lying ground state and not to the degeneracy of the excitonic phase in the pure FKM. The excitonic phase, however, may be stabilized further away from the pure FKM limit. In this case, the low-energy excitation spectrum contains important information about the properties of the excitonic condensate (including the strongly suppressed critical temperature).
The extrapolation of small-cluster exact-diagonalization calculations is used to examine the influence of correlated hopping on valence and metal-insulator transitions in the one-dimensional Falicov-Kimball model. It is shown that in the half-filled band case the ground-state phase diagram as well as the picture of valence and metal-insulator transitions found for the conventional Falicov-Kimball model (without correlated hopping) are strongly changed when the correlated hopping term is added. The effect of correlated hopping is so strong that it can induce the insulator-metal transition. Outside half-filling correlated hopping stabilizes the segregated phase in the ground-state, however, the nature of the ground-state remains qualitatively unchanged.