Doping-driven resistive collapse of the Mott insulator in a minimal model for VO2

Here we study the resistive collapse of the Mott insulator state in the dimer Hubbard model. This minimal model has been used to describe the physics of VO2, and should be relevant to other strongly correlated materials. It incorporates the physics of correlated dimers and the explicit competition b...

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Published in:Physical review. B 2022-03, Vol.105 (12)
Main Authors: Fratino, L., Bag, S., Camjayi, A., Civelli, M., Rozenberg, M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
dynamical mean field theory
MATERIALS SCIENCE
Metal-insulator transition
strongly correlated systems
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Summary:Here we study the resistive collapse of the Mott insulator state in the dimer Hubbard model. This minimal model has been used to describe the physics of VO2, and should be relevant to other strongly correlated materials. It incorporates the physics of correlated dimers and the explicit competition between on-site Coulomb repulsion and magnetic exchange interactions. Our results unveil that between the Mott insulator at half filling and the Fermi liquid metal at high doping there is an intermediate bad metallic phase with exotic features such as a pseudogap, orbital selectivity, and a first-order metal-metal transition. The model is solved within dynamical mean field theory by means of quantum Monte Carlo, which provides the numerically exact solution of the model in the limit of large lattice dimensionality. This model can be considered as a minimal one that captures exotic phenomena associated to the physics of a doped Mott insulator, shading light on their basic physical mechanism.
ISSN:2469-9950
2469-9969
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.105.125140