Fate of Quasiparticle at Mott Transition and Interplay with Lifshitz Transition Studied by Correlator Projection Method

TL;DR

This study investigates the nature of the Mott transition and its interplay with Lifshitz transitions in the two-dimensional Hubbard model using an advanced correlator projection method that captures momentum dependence beyond DMFT.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed analysis of the phase diagram and quasiparticle behavior at the Mott transition, highlighting the role of momentum dependence and Lifshitz transitions, which are not captured by traditional methods.

Findings

Lifshitz and metal-insulator transitions can occur simultaneously or separately depending on Coulomb repulsion.

Quasiparticles retain finite renormalization factors across the transition, indicating a shift in the Fermi level causes the transition.

Charge compressibility diverges at the Lifshitz transition's critical end point due to singular momentum dependence.

Abstract

Filling-control metal-insulator transition on the two-dimensional Hubbard model is investigated by using the correlator projection method, which takes into account momentum dependence of the free energy beyond the dynamical mean-field theory. The phase diagram of metals and Mott insulators is analyzed. Lifshitz transitions occur simultaneously with metal-insulator transitions at large Coulomb repulsion. On the other hand, they are separated each other for lower Coulomb repulsion, where the phase sandwiched by the Lifshitz and metal-insulator transitions appears to show violation of the Luttinger sum rule. Through the metal-insulator transition, quasiparticles retain nonzero renormalization factor and finite quasi-particle weight in the both sides of the transition. This supports that the metal-insulator transition is caused not by the vanishing renormalization factor but by the relative shift of the Fermi level into the Mott gap away from the quasiparticle band, in sharp contrast with the original dynamical mean-field theory. Charge compressibility diverges at the critical end point of the first-order Lifshitz transition at finite temperatures. The origin of the divergence is ascribed to singular momentum dependence of the quasiparticle dispersion.