Can correlations drive a band insulator metallic?

Details Can correlations drive a band insulator metallic? Can correlations drive a band insulator metallic?

2005-11-14

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0511351v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

4 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.046403

We analyze the effects of the on-site Coulomb repulsion U on a band insulator using dynamical mean field theory (DMFT). We find the surprising result that the gap is suppressed to zero at a critical Uc1 and remains zero within a metallic phase. At a larger Uc2 there is a second transition from the metal to a Mott insulator, in which the gap increases with increasing U. These results are qualitatively different from Hartree-Fock theory which gives a monotonically decreasing but non-zero insulating gap for all finite U.

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