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Mott-Hubbard insulators for systems with orbital degeneracy

Olle Gunnarsson, Erik Koch, Richard M. Martin

cond-mat.str-elarXiv:cond-mat/9701151

Abstract

We study how the electron hopping reduces the Mott-Hubbard band gap in the limit of a large Coulomb interaction U and as a function of the orbital degeneracy N. The results support the conclusion that the hopping contribution grows as roughly NW, where W is the one-particle band width, but in certain models a crossover to a NW behavior is found for a sufficiently large N.

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