Interaction-induced Metal to Topological Insulator Transition
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| author | Tzeng, Yu-Chin Chang, Po-Yao Yang, Min-Fong |
| author_facet | Tzeng, Yu-Chin Chang, Po-Yao Yang, Min-Fong |
| contents | By means of exact diagonalizations, the Bernevig-Hughes-Zhang model at quarter-filling in the limit of strong Hubbard on-site repulsion is investigated. We find that the non-interacting metallic state will be turned into a Chern insulator with saturated magnetization under strong correlations. That is, at such a metal-insulator transition, both the topological and the magnetic properties of the system are changed due to spontaneous breaking of time reversal symmetry in the ground states. According to our findings, this topological phase transition seems to be of first order. Our results illustrate the interesting physics in topological Mott transitions and provide guidance to the search of more interaction-induced topological phases in similar systems. |
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| spellingShingle | Interaction-induced Metal to Topological Insulator Transition Tzeng, Yu-Chin Chang, Po-Yao Yang, Min-Fong Strongly Correlated Electrons Materials Science By means of exact diagonalizations, the Bernevig-Hughes-Zhang model at quarter-filling in the limit of strong Hubbard on-site repulsion is investigated. We find that the non-interacting metallic state will be turned into a Chern insulator with saturated magnetization under strong correlations. That is, at such a metal-insulator transition, both the topological and the magnetic properties of the system are changed due to spontaneous breaking of time reversal symmetry in the ground states. According to our findings, this topological phase transition seems to be of first order. Our results illustrate the interesting physics in topological Mott transitions and provide guidance to the search of more interaction-induced topological phases in similar systems. |
| title | Interaction-induced Metal to Topological Insulator Transition |
| topic | Strongly Correlated Electrons Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02771 |