Geometrical-frustration-induced (Semi)metal-to-insulator transition.
We study the low-energy properties of the geometrically frustrated Hubbard model on a three-dimensional pyrochlore lattice and a two-dimensional checkerboard lattice on the basis of the renormalization group method and mean field analysis. It is found that, in the half-filling case, a (semi)metal to insulator transition (MIT) occurs. Also, in the insulating phase, which has a spin gap, the spin rotational symmetry is not broken, while charge ordering exists. The results are applied to the description of the MIT observed in the pyrochlore system Tl2Ru2O7.
Fujimoto
Satoshi
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Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Japan.