The Semimetal-Mott Insulator Quantum Phase Transition of the Hubbard Model

27 Jul 2021, 06:00
15m
Oral presentation Theoretical developments and applications beyond particle physics Theoretical developments and applications beyond particle physics

Speaker

Johann Ostmeyer (University Bonn)

Description

The Hubbard model is an important tool to understand the electrical properties of various materials. More specifically, on the honeycomb lattice it features a quantum phase transition from a semimetal to a Mott insulating state which falls into the Gross-Neveu universality class. In this talk I am going to explain how we confirmed said quantum phase transition by taking advantage of recent improvements in our Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm. These improvements allowed us to simulate unprecedentedly large lattices and extract critical quantities with very high precision.

Primary authors

Johann Ostmeyer (University Bonn) Evan Berkowitz Stefan Krieg (Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH) Timo Lähde Prof. Thomas Luu (Forshungszentrum Jülich) Carsten Urbach (University of Bonn)

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