Abstract
We study the interaction induced zero temperature metal-insulator transition of the Holstein model at half-filling employing the dynamical mean-field theory in combination with Wilson's numerical renormalization group. We calculate the transitions between the insulating and metallic states as coupling constant g and the bare phonon frequency ω0 are varied. For the electron-phonon coupling g smaller than the critical value gc 1 the ground state is a metallic state, and for g > gc 2 it is the bipolaron insulating state. Between gc 1 < g < gc 2 the metallic and insulating solutions coexist. The dependence of gc 1 and gc 2 on ω0 are computed. The numerical results may be understood in terms of the metal-insulator transition of repulsive Hubbard model and the band narrowing of small polaron physics.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 916-918 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials |
| Volume | 310 |
| Issue number | 2 SUPPL. PART 1 |
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| State | Published - Mar 2007 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by Korea Research Foundation through Grant No. KRF-2005-070-C00044.
Keywords
- Dynamical mean-field theory
- Holstein model
- Metal-insulator transition
- Numerical renormalization group