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D O Demchenko1, A V Joura, J K Freericks
1Department of Physics, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 20057-0995, USA.
Abstract:
The Mott-Hubbard metal-insulator transition is one of the most important problems in correlated-electron systems. In the past decade, much progress has been made in examining a particle-hole symmetric form of the transition in the Hubbard model with dynamical mean field theory, where it was found that the electronic self-energy develops a pole at the transition. We examine the particle-hole asymmetric metal-insulator transition in the Falicov-Kimball model and find that a number of features change when the noninteracting density of states has a finite bandwidth.
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