Does the Falicov-Kimball model allow for a ferroelectric ground state with a spontaneous polarization?

Abstract

The extrapolation of small-cluster exact-diagonalization calculations is used to examine the possibility of electronic ferroelectricity in the one dimensional spinless and spin-one-half Falicov-Kimball model (FKM). It is found that neither spinless nor spin-one-half version of the FKM does not allow for a ferroelectric ground state with a spontaneous polarization, i.e. there is no nonvanishing $<d^{+}f>$-expectation value for vanishing hybridization $V$.