Browsing by Author "Žitko, Rok"

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    Charge transport in the Hubbard model at high temperatures: Triangular versus square lattice
    Vranić, Ana; Vučičević, Jakša; Kokalj, Jure; Skolimowski, Jan; Žitko, Rok; Mravlje, Jernej; Tanasković, Darko
    High-temperature bad-metal transport has been recently studied both theoretically and in experiments as one of the key signatures of strong electronic correlations. Here we use the dynamical mean field theory and its cluster extensions, as well as the finite-temperature Lanczos method to explore the influence of lattice frustration on the thermodynamic and transport properties of the Hubbard model at high temperatures. We consider the triangular and the square lattices at half-filling and at 15% hole doping. We find that for T greater than or similar to 1.5t the self-energy becomes practically local, while the finite-size effects become small at lattice size 4x4 for both lattice types and doping levels. The vertex corrections to optical conductivity, which are significant on the square lattice even at high temperatures, contribute less on the triangular lattice. We find approximately linear temperature dependence of dc resistivity in doped Mott insulator for both types of lattices.
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    Conductivity in the Square Lattice Hubbard Model at High Temperatures: Importance of Vertex Corrections
    Vučičević, Jakša; Kokalj, Jure; Žitko, Rok; Wentzell, Nils; Tanasković, Darko; Mravlje, Jernej
    Recent experiments on cold atoms in optical lattices allow for a quantitative comparison of the measurements to the conductivity calculations in the square lattice Hubbard model. However, the available calculations do not give consistent results, and the question of the exact solution for the conductivity in the Hubbard model remained open. In this Letter, we employ several complementary state-of-the-art numerical methods to disentangle various contributions to conductivity and identify the best available result to be compared to experiment. We find that, at relevant (high) temperatures, the self-energy is practically local, yet the vertex corrections remain rather important, contrary to expectations. The finite-size effects are small even at the lattice size 4×4, and the corresponding Lanczos diagonalization result is, therefore, close to the exact result in the thermodynamic limit.
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    Electrical conductivity in the Hubbard model: Orbital effects of magnetic field
    Vučičević, Jakša; Žitko, Rok
    Calculation of conductivity in the Hubbard model is a challenging task. Recent years have seen much progress in this respect and numerically exact solutions are now possible in certain regimes. In this paper we discuss the calculation of conductivity for the square-lattice Hubbard model in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field, focusing on orbital effects. We present the relevant formalism in all detail and in full generality, and then discuss the simplifications that arise at the level of the dynamical mean field theory (DMFT). We prove that the Kubo bubble preserves gauge and translational invariance, and that in the DMFT the vertex corrections cancel regardless of the magnetic field. We present the DMFT results for the spectral function and both the longitudinal and Hall conductivities in several regimes of parameters. We analyze thoroughly the quantum oscillations of the longitudinal conductivity and identify a high-frequency oscillation component, arising as a combined effect of scattering and temperature, in line with recent experimental observations in moiré systems.
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    Universal Magnetic Oscillations of dc Conductivity in the Incoherent Regime of Correlated Systems
    Vučičević, Jakša; Žitko, Rok
    Using the dynamical mean field theory we investigate the magnetic field dependence of dc conductivity in the Hubbard model on the square lattice, fully taking into account the orbital effects of the field introduced via the Peierls substitution. In addition to the conventional Shubnikov-de Haas quantum oscillations, associated with the coherent cyclotron motion of quasiparticles and the presence of a welldefined Fermi surface, we find an additional oscillatory component with a higher frequency that corresponds to the total area of the Brillouin zone. These paradigm-breaking oscillations appear at elevated temperature. This finding is in excellent qualitative agreement with the recent experiments on graphene superlattices. We elucidate the key roles of the off-diagonal elements of the current vertex and the incoherence of electronic states, and explain the trends with respect to temperature and doping.