Metal-insulator (MI) transitions in correlated electron systems have long been a central and controversial issue in material science. Vanadium dioxide (VO2) exhibits a first-order MI transition at 340 K. For more than half a century, it has been debated whether electronic correlation or the structural instability due to dimerised V ions is the more essential driving force behind this MI transition. Here, we show that an ultrahigh magnetic field of 500 T renders the insulator phase of tungsten (W)-doped VO2 metallic. The spin Zeeman effect on the d electrons of the V ions dissociates the dimers in the insulating phase, resulting in the delocalisation of electrons. Because the Mott-Hubbard gap essentially does not depend on the spin degree of freedom, the structural instability is likely to be the more essential driving force behind the MI transition.
Ruthenates provide comprehensive platform to study a plethora of novel properties, such as quantum magnetism, superconductivity and magnetic fluctuation mediated metal-insulator transition. In this article, we provide an overview of quantum mechanical phenomenology in calcium ruthenium oxide with varying compositions. While the stochiometric composition of CaRuO$_{3}$ exhibits non-Fermi liquid behavior with quasi-criticality, chemically doped compounds depict prominent signatures of quantum magnetic fluctuations at low temperature that in some cases are argued to mediate in metal-insulator tra…
Numerically exact simulation of photo-doped Mott insulators
University of Hamburg（汉堡大学）；University of Michigan（密歇根大学）；Graz University of Technology（格拉茨工业大学）；Tel Aviv University（特拉维夫大学）；The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging（汉堡超快成像中心）
本文提出利用数值精确的稳态Quantum Monte Carlo技术，结合时间局域分布函数ansatz，计算Mott绝缘体中长寿命光掺杂态的性质，发现Mott能隙对大光掺杂保持稳健且准粒子性质被强重整化。
The Electronic States of Two Oppositely doped Mott Insulators Bilayers
我们研究了两个相反掺杂的低维tJ模型系统之间的库仑相互作用效应。我们精确地证明了，在一维情况下，任意的弱相互作用导致电荷中性的电子-空穴对的形成。然后，我们使用两种不同的平均场论来解决二维的情况下，层间激子也形成和凝聚。我们建议，这将导致新的功能，没有类似的单层，如绝缘自旋液相的出现。我们简单的双层模型可能与掺杂的莫特绝缘体界面和新的四层Ba 2CaCu 4 O 8化合物的物理学有关。
Despite many efforts to rationalize the strongly correlated electronic ground states in doped Mott insulators, the nature of the doping induced insulator to metal transition is still a subject under intensive investigation. Here we probe the nanoscale electronic structure of the Mott insulator Sr$_2$IrO$_{4-δ}$ with low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and find enhanced local density of states (LDOS) inside the Mott gap at the location of individual apical oxygen site defects. We visualize paths of enhanced conductance arising from the overlapping of defect states which induces finite…
We study the dynamics of charge-transfer insulators after photo-excitation using the three-band Emery model and a nonequilibrium extension of Hartree-Fock+EDMFT and GW+EDMFT. While the equilibrium properties are accurately reproduced by the Hartree-Fock treatment of the full $p$ bands, dynamical correlations are essential for a proper description of the photo-doped state. The insertion of doublons and holons leads to a renormalization of the charge transfer gap %and $p$ bands and to a substantial broadening of the bands. We calculate the time-resolved photoemission spectrum and optical conduct…
A slave-fermion gauge-theory approach of the t-J model: Doping-induced complex magnetic structure and Z$_{2}$ spin-gapped anomalous metal in an antiferromagnetic doped Mott insulator
The Mott insulating phase of the parent compounds is frequently taken as starting point for the underdoped high-$T_c$ cuprate superconductors. In particular, the pseudogap state is often considered as deriving from the Mott insulator. In this work, we systematically investigate different weakly-doped Mott insulators on the square and triangular lattice to clarify the relationship between the pseudogap and Mottness. We show that doping a two-dimensional Mott insulator does not necessarily lead to a pseudogap phase. Despite its inherent strong-coupling nature, we find that the existence or absen…
A three-orbital model derived from the two-dimensional projection of the $ab$ $initio$ Hamiltonian for alkaline doped fullerene A$_3$C$_{60}$ with A=Cs,Rb,K is studied by a variational Monte Carlo method. We correctly reproduce the experimental isotropic s-wave superconductivity around the $ab$ $initio$ parameters. With narrowing the bandwidth, the transition to an insulator is also reproduced, where orbital symmetry is found to be spontaneously broken with emergence of an excitonic Mott insulator for two orbitals and an antiferromagnetic insulator nearly degenerate with a spin liquid for the …
