Abstract
We analyze the single-particle spectral density and the optical conductivity of the single-band Hubbard model in the insulating Mott phase within the slave-boson technique. We show that the boson fluctuations around the saddle-point solution build up the lower and upper Hubbard bands and give rise to the optical conductivity which describes transitions between these incoherent bands. We find that the Brinkman-Rice metal-insulator transition is characterized by the simultaneous vanishing of the jump in the chemical potential, the single-particle spectral density gap, and the optical gap.
- Received 19 July 1993
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.48.11453
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