Exciton condensation due to electron-phonon interaction. Phan, V., Becker, K. W., & Fehske, H. Physical Review B, 88(20):205123, November, 2013. 269
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We show that coupling to vibrational degrees of freedom can drive a semimetal excitonic-insulator quantum phase transition in a one-dimensional two-band f-c-electron system at zero temperature. The insulating state typifies an excitonic condensate accompanied by a finite lattice distortion. Using the projector-based renormalization method we analyze the ground-state and spectral properties of the interacting electron-phonon model at half filling. In particular we calculate the momentum dependence of the excitonic order-parameter function and determine the finite critical interaction strength for the metal-insulator transition to appear. The electron spectral function reveals the strong hybridization of f- and c-electron states and the opening of a single-particle excitation gap. The phonon spectral function indicates that the phonon mode involved in the transition softens (hardens) in the adiabatic (nonadiabatic and extreme antiadiabatic) phonon frequency regime.
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	doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.88.205123},
	abstract = {We show that coupling to vibrational degrees of freedom can drive a semimetal excitonic-insulator quantum phase transition in a one-dimensional two-band f-c-electron system at zero temperature. The insulating state typifies an excitonic condensate accompanied by a finite lattice distortion. Using the projector-based renormalization method we analyze the ground-state and spectral properties of the interacting electron-phonon model at half filling. In particular we calculate the momentum dependence of the excitonic order-parameter function and determine the finite critical interaction strength for the metal-insulator transition to appear. The electron spectral function reveals the strong hybridization of f- and c-electron states and the opening of a single-particle excitation gap. The phonon spectral function indicates that the phonon mode involved in the transition softens (hardens) in the adiabatic (nonadiabatic and extreme antiadiabatic) phonon frequency regime.},
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	urldate = {2014-07-01},
	journal = {Physical Review B},
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