Correlations in a band insulator

Details Correlations in a band insulator Correlations in a band insulator

2009-07-07

arxiv.org/abs/0907.1237v2

Phys. Rev. B 80, 155116 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

7 pages, 7 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.80.155116

We study a model of a covalent band insulator with on-site Coulomb repulsion at half-filling using dynamical mean-field theory. Upon increasing the interaction strength the system undergoes a discontinuous transition from a correlated band insulator to a Mott insulator with hysteretic behavior at low temperatures. Increasing the temperature in the band insulator close to the insulator-insulator transition we find a crossover to a Mott insulator at elevated temperatures. Remarkably, correlations decrease the energy gap in the correlated band insulator. The gap renormalization can be traced to the low-frequency behavior of the self-energy, analogously to the quasiparticle renormalization in a Fermi liquid. While the uncorrelated band insulator is characterized by a single gap for both charge and spin excitations, the spin gap is smaller than the charge gap in the correlated system.

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