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Mott transitions in the multi-orbital systems

Akihisa Koga, Norio Kawakami, T. M. Rice, Manfred Sigrist

cond-mat.str-elarXiv:cond-mat/0406457

Abstract

We investigate the Mott transitions in the two-orbital Hubbard model with different bandwidths. By combining dynamical mean field theory with the exact diagonalization, we discuss the stability of itinerant quasi-particle states in each band. We demonstrate that separate Mott transitions occur at different Coulomb interaction strengths in general, which merge to a single transition only under special conditions. In particular, it is clarified that the xy and pair-hopping components of the Hund coupling play a key role to control the nature of the Mott transitions.

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