Enhanced Spin-Orbit Coupling in a Correlated Metal

Abstract

We investigate the correlation effects on spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in a two-orbital Hubbard model on a square lattice by applying the variational Monte Carlo method. We consider an effective SOC constant ${\lambda }_{\text{eff}}$ in the one-body part of the variational wave function and mainly discuss the cases of the electron number per site $n=1$, that is, quarter filling. We find that ${\lambda }_{\text{eff}}$ is proportional to the bare value $\lambda$ and depends on the electron-electron interactions through $(U^{\prime }-J^{\prime })$ in a relatively wide parameter range in the paramagnetic (PM) phase, where $U^{\prime }$ is the interorbital Coulomb interaction and $J^{\prime }$ is the pair hopping interaction. Increasing the electron-electron interactions in the PM phase leads to a transition to an effective one-band state, in which the upper band becomes empty due to the enhanced ${\lambda }_{\text{eff}}$. We also construct phase diagrams considering magnetic order. The carrier doping effect on ${\lambda }_{\text{eff}}$ is also investigated. We find that ${\lambda }_{\text{eff}}$ enhances in a strongly correlated region around the Mott transition point and it is necessary to include the correlation effects beyond the Hartree-Fock approximation to describe the enhanced SOC properly.

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