Mott transition, Widom line and pseudogap in the half-filled triangular lattice Hubbard model

Abstract

The Mott transition is observed experimentally in materials that are magnetically frustrated so that long-range order does not hide the Mott transition at finite temperature. The Hubbard model on the triangular lattice at half-filling is a paradigmatic model to study the interplay of interactions and frustration on the normal-state phase diagram. We use the dynamical cluster approximation with continuous time auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo to solve this model for 1, 4, 6, 12, and 16 site clusters with detailed analysis performed for the 6 site cluster. We show that a) for every cluster there is an inflection point in the double occupancy as a function of interaction, defining a Widom line that extends above the critical point of the first-order Mott transition; b) the presence of this line and the cluster size dependence argue for the observability of the Mott transition at finite temperature in the thermodynamic limit; c) the loss of spectral weight in the metal to Mott insulator transition as a function of temperature and for strong interactions is momentum dependent, the hallmark of a pseudogap. That pseudogap spans a large region of the phase diagram near the Mott transition.

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