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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THEORY AND COMPUTATION
Volume 15, Issue 4, Pages 2221-2232Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.8b01116
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- ERC [742102 QUENOCOBA]
- DFG through the Emmy Noether programme [SE 2558/2-1]
- IMPRS-UFAST
- European Research Council [ERC-2015-AdG-694097]
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We present a density-matrix embedding theory (DMET) study of the one-dimensional Hubbard-Holstein model, which is paradigmatic for the interplay of electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions. Analyzing the single-particle excitation gap, we find a direct Peierls insulator to Mott insulator phase transition in the adiabatic regime of slow phonons in contrast to a rather large intervening metallic phase in the anti-adiabatic regime of fast phonons. We benchmark the DMET results for both on-site energies and excitation gaps against density-matrix renormalization group (DMRG) results and find good agreement of the resulting phase boundaries. We also compare the full quantum treatment of phonons against the standard Born-Oppenheimer (BO) approximation. The BO approximation gives qualitatively similar results to DMET in the adiabatic regime but fails entirely in the anti-adiabatic regime, where BO predicts a sharp direct transition from Mott to Peierls insulator, whereas DMET correctly shows a large intervening metallic phase. This highlights the importance of quantum fluctuations in the phononic degrees of freedom for metallicity in the one-dimensional Hubbard-Holstein model.
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