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10 The Correlated Metallic State

field-like treatment. In view of the fluctuating character of the mean

field, one often calls it a dynamical mean field theory (DMFT)28.
We are primarily interested in the results for T = 0 because those
are directly comparable to our previous variational results. Herein lies
some difficulty because most non-perturbative works were done with the
quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method which is confined to finite tem-
peratures, and the extrapolation to T = 0 is not without uncertainties.
Still, reasonable guesses can be made.
Another difficulty is associated with the lattice and/or band struc-
ture. The nearest-neighbour hopping model on the hypercubic lattice
retains its perfect nesting property up to D = 00, and thus if we take
the model quite seriously, then the Mott transition which would oc-
cur at finite U is preempted (and overlaid) by the transition into the
antiferromagnetic insulating state at U = +O. Keeping the solution
paramagnetic “by hand” is certainly an option but it is more convinc-
ing to postulate a different band structure and/or band density of states
which does not imply a magnetic instability at small U. The D = 00
fcc (half-hypercubic) lattice would be an ideal choice but its Mott tran-
sition has not been studied yet. However, the semicircular density of
states

(10.72)

is a popular choice [130]. (10.72) is non-vanishing in a finite interval2g

and bounded, thus hopefully it allows to draw conclusions about the
generic behaviour. Besides, it happens to be the DOS for a completely
connected graph with random matrix elements t G , Realizing that in
the corresponding Heisenberg model all bonds are equally antiferro-
magnetic, we can readily accept that the large-U limit corresponds to a
fully frustrated magnet which does not wish to order at all. Thus we are

‘*DMFT results can be very different from those of usual (static) mean field theory.
See Fig. 8.9 on p. 461 for an interesting example.
“The gaussian tails of the DOS for many D = 00 structures may give rise to
confusing results. If we envisage the Hubbard subbands as reduced-scale copies of
the original band, we should fear that their tails overlap in the purported Mott-
Hubbard gap, which would make the identification of the Mott transition a delicate
af€air.