Orbital-selective bad metals due to Hund’s rule and orbital anisotropy: a finite-temperature slave-spin treatment of the two-band Hubbard model
The central result is shown in the Figure below. It shows the phase diagram of the metallic phase as a function of temperature and the Hund's rule interaction J in a system with two bands of differing bandwidth. Uc1 ~ W1 is the critical interaction for a Mott insulator in a one band system with bandwidth W1.
The system is a Hund's metal in that the strong correlations arise from J and not from proximity to a Mott insulating phase (note that U=0.5Uc1).
In the orbital-selective bad metal, one of the bands is a coherent Fermi liquid (with well-defined Fermi surface) and the second (narrower) band is a bad metal.
Stability of the bad metal and the orbital-selective bad metal are enhanced by increasing J and/or by increasing band anisotropy.
The temperatures at which the bad metals occur is orders of magnitude smaller than the Fermi temperature for the corresponding non-interacting system (being of the order of W1~ Uc1).
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Which materials would you say come under this category of orbital selective bad metals?
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