Erik Koch (a), Olle Gunnarsson (a), and Richard M. Martin (a, b)
(a) Max-Planck-Institut fuer Festkoerperforschung, Stuttgart
(b) Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
We study the Mott transition in Hubbard models with a degenerate band on
different 3-dimensional lattices. While for a non-degenerate band only the
half-filled system may exhibit a Mott transition, with degeneracy there
can be a transition for any integer filling. We analyze the filling dependence
of the Mott transition and find that Uc (the Hubbard
interaction U at
which the transition takes place) decreases away from half-filling.
In addition we can change the lattice structure of the model. This allows us
to study the influence of frustration on the Mott transition. We find that
frustration increases Uc, compared to bipartite systems.
The results were obtained from fixed-node diffusion Monte Carlo calculations
using trial functions which allow us to systematically vary the magnetic
character of the system. To gain a qualitative understanding of the
results, we have developed simple hopping arguments that help to
rationalize the doping dependence and the influence of frustration
on the Mott transition.
Choosing the model parameters to describe the doped Fullerides, we can make
contact with experiment and understand why some of the Fullerides are metals,
while others, which according to density functional theory should also be
metallic, actually are insulators.
Proceedings of the CCP99/Centennial Conference of the APS
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Computer Physics Communications 127, 137 (2000)
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