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A complete devil's staircase in the Falicov-Kimball model

C. Micheletti, A. B. Harris, J. M. Yeomans

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/9612137

Abstract

We consider the neutral, one-dimensional Falicov-Kimball model at zero temperature in the limit of a large electron--ion attractive potential, U. By calculating the general n-ion interaction terms to leading order in 1/U we argue that the ground-state of the model exhibits the behavior of a complete devil's staircase.

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