Ground state properties of spinless extended Falicov-Kimball model on a triangular lattice with finite magnetic field

Abstract

Combined effects of correlated electron hopping, electron correlations and orbital magnetic field are studied on ground state properties of spinless Falicov-Kimball model (FKM). Results are obtained for finite size triangular lattice with periodic boundary conditions using numerical diagonalization and Monte-Carlo simulation techniques. It is found that the ground state configurations of electrons strongly depend on correlated electron hopping, onsite Coulomb interaction and orbital magnetic field. Several interesting configurations e.g. regular, segregated, axial and diagonal striped and hexagonal phases are found with change in correlated hopping and magnetic field. Study of density of states reveals that magnetic field induces a metal to insulator transition accompanied by segregated phase to an ordered phase. These results are applicable to the systems of recent interest like GdI2, NaTiO2 and MgV2O4 and can also be seen experimentally in cold atomic set up.