Metal-insulator transitions and low energy states in low dimensional strongly correlated systems

Masatoshi Imada

Ming-Xi Lin, SHeng-Wen Qi

Using a universal relation between electron filling factor and ground state energy, this paper studies the dependence of correlation exponents on the electron filling factor of one-dimensional extended Hubbard model in a strong coupling regime, and demonstrates that in contrast to the usual Hubbard model ( g c = 1/2), the dimensionless coupling strength parameter g c heavily depends on the electron filling, and it has a "particle-hole" symmetry about electron quarter filling point. As increasing the nearest neighbouring repulsive interaction, the single particle spectral weight is transferred from low energy to high energy regimes. Moreover, at electron quarter filling, there is a metal-Mott insulator transition at the strong coupling point g c = 1/4, and this transition is a continuous phase transition.

Dragana Popović

This chapter focuses on studies of the critical behavior of conductivity in two-dimensional electron systems (2DES) with different amounts and types of disorder as well as different ranges of Coulomb interactions, in order to identify possible universality classes of the 2D metal-insulator transition (MIT). It discusses the manifestations of glassiness in both low- and high-disorder samples. The chapter examines the critical region near the 2D MIT in particular on describing conductivity measurements that have demonstrated dynamical scaling, the main signature of the MIT as a quantum phase transition. It also focuses on experiments that probe the nature of the insulating state, as well as charge dynamics across the MIT, in both high- and low-disorder 2DESs. There is substantial evidence that in many materials near the MIT both strong electronic correlations and disorder play an important role, and thus their competition is expected to lead to glassy behavior of electrons, in analogy with other frustrated systems.

C. A. Büsser, E. V. Anda, Laura Urba +2 more

Daniel J. García, E. Miranda, K. Hallberg +1 more

Goetz Moeller, Qimiao Si A, Gabriel Kotliar +1 more

We introduce a systematic low-energy approach to strongly correlated electron systems in infinite dimensions, and apply it to the problem of the correlation-induced metal-insulator transition in the half-filled Hubbard model. We determine the low-energy scaling functions of the metallic state, including the single-particle Green function and dynamical spin susceptibility, as well as thermodynamic properties and relate them to experimental data in transition metal oxides.