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We study quantum phase transitions of an ionic Hubbard model in two dimensions. The ionic Hubbard model explains the quantum states of strongly correlated electrons under the influence of checkerboard-type alternating chemical potentials. For a given amplitude of the alternating potentials Δ, we obtain quantum ground states as we tune the local repulsive energy U between a spin-up electron and a spin-down electron by using an exact diagonalization method of a modified Lanczos algorithm. The system undergoes a quantum phase transition from a band insulator to a Mott insulator as U increases at half-filling. We find the signature of a quantum phase transition by investigating the behavior of ground-state energies and that of double occupancies for the size of L × L = 4 × 4, which was the largest possible lattice in this work. We compare our results with those of quantum Monte Carlo simulations employing the Hirsch-Fye algorithm.
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Cho, J., Lee, JW. Exact diagonalization and quantum Monte Carlo study of an ionic Hubbard model in two dimensions. Journal of the Korean Physical Society 70, 494–498 (2017). https://doi.org/10.3938/jkps.70.494
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