Disentangling real space fluctuations: The diagnostics of metal-insulator transitions beyond single-particle spectral functions
The destruction of metallicity due to the mutual Coulomb interaction of quasiparticles gives rise to fascinating phenomena of solid state physics such as the Mott metal-insulator transition and pseudogap. A key observable characterizing their occurrences is the single-particle spectral function, det...
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| Main Authors: | , , , , , , |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2025-07-01
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| Series: | Physical Review Research |
| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/1nt5-swsk |
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| Summary: | The destruction of metallicity due to the mutual Coulomb interaction of quasiparticles gives rise to fascinating phenomena of solid state physics such as the Mott metal-insulator transition and pseudogap. A key observable characterizing their occurrences is the single-particle spectral function, determined by the fermionic self-energy. In this paper, we investigate in detail how real space fluctuations are responsible for a self-energy that drives the Mott-Hubbard metal-insulator transition. To this aim, we first introduce a real space fluctuation diagnostics approach to the Hedin equation, which connects the fermion-boson coupling vertex λ to the self-energy Σ. Second, by using cellular dynamical mean-field theory calculations, we unambiguously identify nearest-neighbor antiferromagnetic excitations as the leading physical processes responsible for the destruction of metallicity across the transition. |
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| ISSN: | 2643-1564 |