Doublon-holon binding, Mott transition, and fractionalized antiferromagnet in the Hubbard model

Abstract

We argue that the binding between doubly occupied (doublon) and empty (holon) sites governs the incoherent excitations and plays a key role in the Mott transition in strongly correlated Mott-Hubbard systems. We construct a new saddle point solution with doublon-holon binding in the Kotliar-Ruckenstein slave-boson functional integral formulation of the Hubbard model. On the half-filled honeycomb lattice and square lattice, the ground state is found to exhibit a continuous transition from the paramagnetic semimetal/metal to an antiferromagnetic ordered Slater insulator with coherent quasiparticles at $U_{c1}$, followed by a Mott transition into an electron-fractionalized AF${}^{\ast }$ phase without coherent excitations at $U_{c2}$. Such a phase structure appears generic of bipartite lattices without frustration. We show that doublon-holon binding unites the three important ideas of strong correlation: the coherent quasiparticles, the incoherent Hubbard bands, and the deconfined Mott insulator.

long version published in PRB with updated results. 14 pages and 9 figures

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