Interplay of mass imbalance and frustration in correlated band insulators

Anwesha Chattopadhyay
Phys. Rev. B 103, 045125 – Published 20 January 2021

Abstract

We report the emergence or broadening of exotic magnetic metallic phases upon explicit breaking of SU(2) symmetry by introduction of mass imbalance in a variant of Hubbard model, known as the ionic Hubbard model in the presence of frustration at half filling on a square lattice. The ionic Hubbard model has in addition to hopping (t) and onsite Coulomb repulsion (U), a staggered ionic potential (Δ) which breaks translational symmetry of the underlying lattice. In the low to intermediate ranges of U and Δ, we use unrestricted Hartree-Fock theory to construct the phase diagram in the UΔ plane for a fixed mass imbalance (η). Where as in the limit where both U,Δ are comparable and much larger than the first (tσ) and second (tσ) neighbor hopping amplitudes, we employ the technique of generalized Gutzwiller approximation and subsequently use renormalized mean field theory to construct the phase diagram for varying values of hopping asymmetry. In both cases, starting from a correlated band insulator with weak antiferromagnetic spin density wave order, if we tune U/Δ, we observe the opening of novel magnetically ordered metallic phases such as spin imbalanced ferromagnetic metal, ferrimagnetic metal, and antiferromagnetic half metal. We also study singlet superconductivity in the d-wave and extended s-wave channels in the strong coupling limit of this model in the presence of mass imbalance.

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  • Received 19 October 2020
  • Revised 13 December 2020
  • Accepted 5 January 2021

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.103.045125

©2021 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Condensed Matter, Materials & Applied Physics

Authors & Affiliations

Anwesha Chattopadhyay

  • Condensed Matter Physics Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, HBNI, 1/AF Bidhannagar, Kolkata 700 064, India

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Vol. 103, Iss. 4 — 15 January 2021

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