Particle-Hole Symmetry and the Effect of Disorder on the Mott-Hubbard Insulator

Abstract

Recent experiments have emphasized that our understanding of the interplay of electron correlations and randomness in solids is still incomplete. We address this important issue and demonstrate that particle-hole (ph) symmetry plays a crucial role in determining the effects of disorder on the transport and thermodynamic properties of the half-filled Hubbard Hamiltonian. We show that the low-temperature conductivity decreases with increasing disorder when ph-symmetry is preserved, and shows the opposite behavior, i.e. conductivity increases with increasing disorder, when ph-symmetry is broken. The Mott insulating gap is insensitive to weak disorder when there is ph-symmetry, whereas in its absence the gap diminishes with increasing disorder.

4 pages, 4 figures

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