Abstract
We consider the optical conductivity in the metallic phase of the one-dimensional Hubbard model. Our results focus on the vicinity of half filling and the frequency regime around the optical gap in the Mott insulating phase. By means of a density-matrix renormalization group implementation of the correction-vector approach, is computed for a range of interaction strengths and dopings. We identify an energy scale above which the optical conductivity shows a rapid increase. We then use a mobile impurity model in combination with exact results to determine the behavior of for frequencies just above which is in agreement with our numerical data. As a main result, we find that this onset behavior is not described by a power law.
- Received 8 January 2016
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.93.125108
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