Why are insulators insulating and metals conducting?

R Resta - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2002 - iopscience.iop.org
At variance with what happens in metals, the electronic charge in insulators cannot flow
freely under an applied dc field, and undergoes instead static polarization. These two …

Quantization and its breakdown in a Hubbard–Thouless pump

AS Walter, Z Zhu, M Gächter, J Minguzzi, S Roschinski… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Geometric properties of wave functions can explain the appearance of topological invariants
in many condensed-matter and quantum systems. For example, topological invariants …

Extended dynamical mean-field theory and method

P Sun, G Kotliar - Physical Review B, 2002 - APS
We develop the extended dynamical mean-field theory (E-DMFT) with a view towards
realistic applications.(1) We introduce an intuitive derivation of the E-DMFT formalism. By …

Splitting of topological charge pum** in an interacting two-component fermionic Rice-Mele Hubbard model

E Bertok, F Heidrich-Meisner, AA Aligia - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
A Thouless pump transports an integer amount of charge when pum** adiabatically
around a singularity. We study the splitting of such a critical point into two separate critical …

Quantum critical behavior of the one-dimensional ionic Hubbard model

SR Manmana, V Meden, RM Noack… - Physical Review B …, 2004 - APS
We study the zero-temperature phase diagram of the half-filled one-dimensional ionic
Hubbard model. This model is governed by the interplay of the on-site Coulomb repulsion …

Interaction-induced charge pum** in a topological many-body system

K Viebahn, AS Walter, E Bertok, Z Zhu… - ar**
OAM Segura, K Hallberg, AA Aligia - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We calculate the charge gap Δ EC and the spin gap Δ ES of the ionic Hubbard chain
including electron-hole symmetric density-dependent hop**. The vanishing of Δ EC (Δ …

Nature of the insulating phases in the half-filled ionic Hubbard model

AP Kampf, M Sekania, GI Japaridze… - Journal of Physics …, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the ground-state phase diagram of the one-dimensional'ionic'Hubbard model
with an alternating periodic potential at half-filling by numerical diagonalization of finite …

Breakdown of topological Thouless pum** in the strongly interacting regime

M Nakagawa, T Yoshida, R Peters, N Kawakami - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
We elucidate the mechanism for instability of topological Thouless pum** in strongly
interacting systems from a viewpoint of symmetry-protected topological phases. If the …