Mass-imbalanced Hubbard model on a 2D square lattice

Abstract

The Hubbard model (HM) and the Falicov-Kimball model (FKM), which are two standard models of strongly correlated electrons, provide an interesting benchmark for the physics of locally correlated systems. We study the intermediate model, mass-imbalanced Hubbard model at half-filling on a 2D square lattice which connects continuously the HM to the FKM.We employ dynamical mean field theory (DMFT) and dynamical cluster approximation (DCA) using continuous-time auxiliary field method (CT-AUX) as self-consistent impurity solver to study the single particle spectral function and self-energy allowing us to map-out the phase diagram of the system. Solutions to the mass-imbalanced model cannot enforce paramagnetic self-consistency and therefore at low temperature result in paramagnetic (PM) to antiferromagnetic (AFM) transition. In addition, in the PM state and at finite temperature, we observed a spin dependent crossover from Fermi liquid (FL) regime to non-Fermi liquid (nFL) regime in which the FL regime is destroyed, monotonically, induced not only by the interaction but also by the mass imbalance. We present the results for small cluster DCA and explore its dependency on cluster size as well.