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Absence of hysteresis at the Mott-Hubbard metal-insulator transition in infinite dimensions

J. Schlipf, M. Jarrell, P. G. J. van Dongen, N. Blümer, S. Kehrein, Th. Pruschke, D. Vollhardt

cond-mat.str-elarXiv:cond-mat/9902267

Abstract

The nature of the Mott-Hubbard metal-insulator transition in the infinite-dimensional Hubbard model is investigated by Quantum Monte Carlo simulations down to temperature T=W/140 (W=bandwidth). Calculating with significantly higher precision than in previous work, we show that the hysteresis below TIPT 0.022W, reported in earlier studies, disappears. Hence the transition is found to be continuous rather than discontinuous down to at least T=0.325TIPT. We also study the changes in the density of states across the transition, which illustrate that the Fermi liquid breaks down before the gap opens.

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