Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
1998-11-17
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
9 pages RevTeX with 7 ps figures, accepted by PRB
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.59.4777
Metals with values of the resistivity and the Hall coefficient much larger than typical ones, e.g., of sodium, are called semimetals. We suggest a model for semimetals which takes into account the strong Coulomb repulsion of the charge carriers, especially important in transition-metal and rare-earth compounds. For that purpose we extend the Hubbard model by coupling one additional orbital per site via hybridization to the Hubbard orbitals. We calculate the spectral function, resistivity and Hall coefficient of the model using dynamical mean-field theory. Starting from the Mott-insulating state, we find a transition to a metal with increasing hybridization strength (``self-doping''). In the metallic regime near the transition line to the insulator the model shows semimetallic behavior. We compare the calculated temperature dependence of the resistivity and the Hall coefficient with the one found experimentally for $\rm Yb_4As_3$. The comparison demonstrates that the anomalies in the transport properties of $\rm Yb_4As_3$ possibly can be assigned to Coulomb interaction effects of the charge carriers not captured by standard band structure calculations.
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