Mott transitions in the Periodic Anderson Model

TL;DR

This paper investigates the Mott transition in the periodic Anderson model using dynamical mean-field theory, revealing phase diagram features, effective low-energy models, and properties of non-Fermi liquid Mott insulators.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive analysis of the Mott transition in PAM, including phase diagram derivation, effective model mapping, and exact results for non-Fermi liquid insulators.

Findings

Phase diagram includes metallic, Mott, Kondo, and band insulator phases.

Effective low-energy model is a one-band Hubbard model with exponential decay hoppings.

Exact results for local moments, charge, and a generalized Luttinger's theorem in Mott insulators.

Abstract

The periodic Anderson model (PAM) is studied within the framework of dynamical mean-field theory, with particular emphasis on the interaction-driven Mott transition it contains, and on resultant Mott insulators of both Mott-Hubbard and charge-transfer type. The form of the PAM phase diagram is first deduced on general grounds using two exact results, over the full range of model parameters and including metallic, Mott, Kondo and band insulator phases.The effective low-energy model which describes the PAM in the vicinity of a Mott transition is then shown to be a one-band Hubbard model, with effective hoppings that are not in general solely nearest neighbour, but decay exponentially with distance. This mapping is shown to have a range of implications for the physics of the problem, from phase boundaries to single-particle dynamics; all of which are confirmed and supplemented by NRG calculations. Finally we consider the locally degenerate, non-Fermi liquid Mott insulator, to describe which requires a two-self-energy description. This is shown to yield a number of exact results for the associated local moment, charge, and interaction-renormalised levels, together with a generalisation of Luttinger's theorem to the Mott insulator.