Metal-Mott insulator interfaces
arXiv:1606.00936 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.95.205126
Abstract
Motivated by the direct observation of electronic phase separation in first-order Mott transitions, we model the interface between the thermodynamically coexisting metal and Mott insulator. We show how to model the required slab geometry and extract the electronic spectra. We construct an effective Landau free energy and compute the variation of its parameters across the phase diagram. Finally, using a linear mixture of the density and double-occupancy, we identify a natural Ising order parameter which unifies the treatment of the bandwidth and filling controlled Mott transitions.
5 pages, 5 figures, 2 pages supplementary
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