Dynamical Characteristics of the Mott Transition: Examination of Doublon Dynamics in a Triangular-lattice Hubbard Model

Abstract

Dynamics in a triangular-lattice Hubbard model is studied at half filling on the basis of the cluster dynamical mean field theory. Numerical calculations use a solver of the continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo method based on the strong-coupling expansion. We examine the change in the nearest-neighbor dynamical correlations of doublon and holon in the time domain with varying the Coulomb repulsion near the Mott transition. We demonstrate that the nearest-neighbor doublon-holon pair shows a strong attractive correlation, particularly in the insulating phase, while the nearest-neighbor doublon-doublon pair shows a repulsive correlation. Useful information is provided by the trajectories in the complex plane of the dynamical correlation functions. The short-time dynamics of the nearest-neighbor doublon and holon in the metallic phase indicates larger fluctuations than in the insulating phase. Their trajectories in the complex plane show that the short-time dynamics of the doublon-holon pair has an opposite behavior to that of the doublon-doublon pair. We find that their time scale of dynamics can be characterized by the period in which the phase rotates π around the long-time limit in both phases. In the long-time region, fluctuations persist up to a very long time in the metallic phase, while they quickly vanish in the insulating phase.