72nd CEMS Colloquium

Speaker

Prof. Kazushi Kanoda (The University of Tokyo)

Date

17:30 - 18:30, May 29, 2019 (Wednesday)

Venue

Okochi-Hall, RIKEN

Title

Diverse Manifestations of Electron Correlation in Organic Conductors

Abstract

　Coulomb interactions among electrons have huge impacts on their behavior through competitions of charge localization/delocalization and spin order/disorder. Layered BEDT-TTF compounds host flexible lattice geometries and appreciable Coulomb interactions, both of which are varied by pressure or chemical substitution to display diverse emergent phenomena like a showcase of correlation physics. In case of a half-filled band, the Mott metal-insulator transition shows universal quantum criticality at high temperatures1 but exhibits lattice-specific behaviour at low temperatures2; in particular, a Mott insulator with a triangular lattice carries a spin liquid3, which can be doped4 and superconduct. When a band is quarter-filled, electrons on a triangular lattice, which imposes frustration against Wigner crystallization, exhibit an exotic glass5, which crystalizes in a long time6, or a frustration-induced anomalous metal6. Alternatively, electrons are partially ordered, leading to the emergence of massless Dirac fermions, which show Dirac-cone reshaping, anomalous spin correlation and incipient mass-generation instability due to unscreened long-range Coulomb repulsion7. It seems as if organic materials seek for connection to soft-matter physics or particle physics beyond the conventional discipline of solid state physics. In this colloquium, I present our works on the above subjects and briefly touch our recent results on topological spin and charge excitations in a neutral-ionic transition material8.

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