2020/11/05 by Xu-Ping Yao, Xiao-Tian Zhang, Yong Baek Kim +2 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #cond-mat.str-el #cond-mat.mtrl-sci
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevresearch.2.043424
published as Phys. Rev. Research 2, 043424 (2020) · 9 pages, 3 figures. Abstracted partly from arXiv:1408.1963
arxiv created 2020/11/05 · arxiv updated 2021/01/05
Motivated by recent experimental progress on various cluster Mott insulators, we study an extended Hubbard model on a breathing Kagomé lattice with a single electron orbital and 1/6 electron filling. Two distinct types of cluster localization are found in the cluster Mott regime due to the presence of the electron repulsion between neighboring sites, rather than from the on-site Hubbard interaction in the conventional Mott insulators. We introduce a unified parton construction framework to accommodate both type of cluster Mott insulating phase as well as a trivial Ferm liquid metal and discuss the phase transitions in the phase diagram. It is shown that, in one of the cluster localization phases, the strong inter-site repulsion results into locally metallic behavior within one of two triangular clusters on the breathing Kagomé lattice. We further comment on experimental relevance to existing Mo-based cluster magnets.