Excitons in one-dimensional Mott insulators

Details Excitons in one-dimensional Mott insulators Excitons in one-dimensional Mott insulators

2001-03-20

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0103406v2

Phys. Rev. B 64, 125119 (2001)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

15 pages, 6 eps figures, corrected typos in labels of figures 4,5, and 6

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.64.125119

We employ dynamical density-matrix renormalization group (DDMRG) and field-theory methods to determine the frequency-dependent optical conductivity in one-dimensional extended, half-filled Hubbard models. The field-theory approach is applicable to the regime of `small' Mott gaps which is the most difficult to access by DDMRG. For very large Mott gaps the DDMRG recovers analytical results obtained previously by means of strong-coupling techniques. We focus on exciton formation at energies below the onset of the absorption continuum. As a consequence of spin-charge separation, these Mott-Hubbard excitons are bound states of spinless, charged excitations (`holon-antiholon' pairs). We also determine exciton binding energies and sizes. In contrast to simple band insulators, we observe that excitons exist in the Mott-insulating phase only for a sufficiently strong intersite Coulomb repulsion. Furthermore, our results show that the exciton binding energy and size are not related in a simple way to the strength of the Coulomb interaction.

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