arXiv:cond-mat/0308120 · Physical Review B
Charge dynamics in the Mott insulating phase of the ionic Hubbard model
Armando A. Aligia
Abstract
I extend to charge and bond operators the transformation that maps the ionic Hubbard model at half filling onto an effective spin Hamiltonian. Using the transformed operators I calculate the amplitude of the charge-density wave in different dimensions D. In one dimension, the charge-charge correlations at large distance d decay as ${d}^{\ensuremath{-}3}{\mathrm{ln}}^{\ensuremath{-}3/2}d,$ in spite of the finite charge gap, due to remaining charge-spin coupling. Bond-bond correlations decay as $(\ensuremath{-}{1)}^{d}{d}^{\ensuremath{-}1}{\mathrm{ln}}^{\ensuremath{-}3/2}d$ as in the usual Hubbard model.