Thermodynamics of correlated electrons in a magnetic field

ORAL

Abstract

We simulate the Hubbard-Hofstadter model using the numerically exact and unbiased determinant quantum Monte Carlo (DQMC) algorithm. We report the field and Hubbard interaction strength dependence of charge compressibility, fermion sign, local moment, magnetic structure factor, and specific heat. We find that some features of the non-interacting magnetic band structure are preserved in the presence of Hubbard repulsion and coexists with the Mott gap at half filling. We also find that incompressible regions of the phase diagram correspond to regions of improved fermion sign. At half filling, in the intermediate to strong coupling regime, we see that strong magnetic field delocalizes electrons and reduces the effect of Hubbard interaction on low-energy properties of the system.

*This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering. EWH was supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's EPiQS Initiative through grants GBMF 4305 and GBMF 8691. YS was supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s EPiQS Initiative through grants GBMF 4302 and GBMF 8686. Computational work was performed on the Sherlock cluster at Stanford University and on resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, supported by the U.S. DOE, Office of Science, under Contract no. DE-AC02-05CH11231.

Presenters

  • Jixun K Ding

    • Stanford University

Authors

  • Jixun K Ding

    • Stanford University
  • Wen O Wang

    • Stanford University
  • Brian Moritz

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory & S
    • SLAC - Natl Accelerator Lab
    • SLAC National Accelerator Lab
    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory & Stanford University
    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
  • Yoni Schattner

    • Stanford University
    • Stanford Univ
  • Edwin Huang

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champai
    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Thomas P Devereaux

    • Stanford Univ
    • Stanford University; SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
    • Stanford University