Slave boson theory of the extended Falicov-Kimball model

dc.creatorBrydon, P. M. R.
dc.date2007-06-13
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T12:33:58Z
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dc.descriptionThe extended Falicov-Kimball model, with both an on-site hybridization potential and dispersive narrow band, is examined within the saddle-point approximation to the Kotliar-Ruckenstein slave boson theory. We first set the hybridization potential to zero and find that the phase diagram depends strongly upon the orbital structure: for degenerate orbitals, a correlated-insulating state is found at sufficiently strong interaction strengths, whereas a finite orbital energy difference can lead to discontinuous valence transitions. The obtained phase diagram is very sensitive to the presence of a finite hybridization potential. As in Hartree-Fock theory, we find an enhancement of the hybridization by the inter-orbital Coulomb repulsion. The more precise treatment of correlation effects, however, leads to large deviations from the Hartree-Fock results. In the limit of vanishing hybridization an excitonic insulator state is only found when the orbitals are degenerate, which restricts this phase to a much smaller parameter space than in other available mean-field theories.
dc.description23 pages, 10 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0706.1883
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0706.1883
dc.identifierPhys. Rev. B 77, 045109 (2008)
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevB.77.045109
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/217262
dc.subjectStrongly Correlated Electrons
dc.titleSlave boson theory of the extended Falicov-Kimball model
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