Order, Criticality, and Excitations in the Extended Falicov-Kimball Model

S. Ejima, T. Kaneko, Y. Ohta, and H. Fehske
Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 026401 – Published 13 January 2014

Abstract

Using exact numerical techniques, we investigate the nature of excitonic (electron-hole) bound states and the development of exciton coherence in the one-dimensional half-filled extended Falicov-Kimball model. The ground-state phase diagram of the model exhibits, besides band-insulator and staggered orbital ordered phases, an excitonic insulator (EI) with power-law correlations. The criticality of the EI state shows up in the von Neumann entropy. The anomalous spectral function and condensation amplitude provide the binding energy and coherence length of the electron-hole pairs which, on their part, point towards a Coulomb interaction driven crossover from BCS-like electron-hole pairing fluctuations to tightly bound excitons. We show that while a mass imbalance between electrons and holes does not affect the location of the BCS-BEC crossover regime, it favors staggered orbital ordering to the disadvantage of the EI. Within the Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) regime, the quasiparticle dispersion develops a flat valence-band top, in accord with the experimental finding for Ta2NiSe5.

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  • Received 1 August 2013

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.026401

© 2014 American Physical Society

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S. Ejima1, T. Kaneko2, Y. Ohta2, and H. Fehske1

  • 1Institut für Physik, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, 17489 Greifswald, Germany
  • 2Department of Physics, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522, Japan

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Vol. 112, Iss. 2 — 17 January 2014

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