Mott transition between a spin-liquid insulator and a metal in three dimensions

Abstract

We study a bandwidth controlled Mott metal-insulator transition (MIT) between a Fermi liquid metal and a quantum spin-liquid insulator at half-filling in three dimensions (3D). Using a slave rotor approach, and incorporating gauge field fluctuations, we find a continuous MIT and discuss the finite temperature crossovers around this critical point. We show that the specific heat C=T ln ln (1/T) at the MIT and argue that the electrical transport on the metallic side near the transition should exhibit a `conductivity minimum' as a function of temperature. A possible candidate to test these predictions is the 3D spin liquid insulator Na4Ir3O8 which exhibits a pressure-tuned transition into a metallic phase. We also present the electron spectral function of Na4Ir3O8 at the transition.

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• Spin-orbit effects in Na${}_4$Ir${}_3$O${}_8$, a hyper-kagomé lattice antiferromagnet
• Gapless spin liquids on the three dimensional hyper-kagome lattice of Na${}_4$Ir${}_3$O${}_8$
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• Na4Ir3O8 as a 3D spin liquid with fermionic spinons
• Classical antiferromagnet on a hyperkagome lattice
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