Optical conductivity of geometrical frustrated electronic systems

Abstract

We study optical conductivity of the one-band Hubbard model on a two-dimensional isotropic triangular lattice at half filling by using the cellular dynamical mean field theory and particularly investigate its behavior near the critical end point of the first order Mott transition. In the metallic phase, the enhancement of effective mass and the significant frequency dependence of scattering rate is identified near the Mott transition. From the results in the insulating state near the Mott transition, we find that the frequency dependence of optical conductivity decays quite smoothly toward zero frequency and exhibits a power-law-like behavior in an intermediate frequency region. We also study optical conductivity of the Hubbard model on a kagomé lattice near the critical end point of the Mott transition. It shows a larger incoherent peak both in the metallic and insulating phases and a stronger frequency dependence of effective mass and scattering rate.