Comparative study of nonequilibrium insulator-to-metal transitions in electron-phonon systems
- Sayyad, Sharareh Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan
- Žitko, Rok Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia - Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Strand, Hugo U. R. Center for Computational Quantum Physics, Flatiron Institute, New York, USA
- Werner, Philipp Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Golež, Denis Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
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09.01.2019
Published in:
- Physical Review B. - 2019, vol. 99, no. 4, p. 045118
English
We study equilibrium and nonequilibrium properties of electron-phonon systems described by the Hubbard-Holstein model using dynamical mean-field theory. In equilibrium, we benchmark the results for impurity solvers based on the one-crossing approximation and slave-rotor approximation against non-perturbative numerical renormalization group reference data. We also examine how well the low-energy properties of the electron-boson coupled systems can be reproduced by an effective static electron-electron interaction. The one-crossing and slave-rotor approximations are then used to simulate insulator-to-metal transitions induced by a sudden switch-on of the electron-phonon interaction. The slave-rotor results suggest the existence of a critical electron-phonon coupling above which the system is transiently trapped in a nonthermal metallic state with coherent quasiparticles. The same quench protocol in the one-crossing approximation results in a bad metallic state.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
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- Département de Physique
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- English
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- Physics
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- RERO DOC 324143
- DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.99.045118
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- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/307708
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