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Pavel Augustinsky

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Excitonic condensation of strongly correlated electrons: the case of Pr$_{0.5}$Ca$_{0.5}$CoO$_3$

We use a combination of dynamical mean-field model calculations and LDA+U material specific calculations to investigate the low temperature phase transition in the compounds from the (Pr$_{1-y}$R$_y$)$_x$Ca$_{1-x}$CoO$_3$ (R=Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Y) family (PCCO). The transition, marked by a sharp peak in the specific heat, leads to an exponential increase of dc resistivity and a drop of the magnetic susceptibility, but no order parameter has been identified yet. We show that condensation of spin-triplet, atomic-size excitons provides a consistent explanation of the observed physics. In particular, it explains the exchange splitting on the Pr sites and the simultaneous Pr valence transition. The excitonic condensation in PCCO is an example of a general behavior expected in certain systems in the proximity of a spin-state transition.

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Multi-orbital simplified parquet equations for strongly correlated electrons

We extend an approximation earlier developed by us for the single-impurity Anderson model to a full-size impurity solver for models of interacting electrons with multiple orbitals. The approximation is based on parquet equations simplified by separating small and large energy fluctuations justified in the critical region of a pole in the two-particle vertex. We show that an $l$-orbital model with most general interaction is described within this approximation by $4l^{2}\times 4l^{2}$ matrices and is Fermi liquid in the metallic phase. We explicitly calculate properties of a paramagnetic solution of a two-orbital Hubbard model with a Hund exchange and orbital splitting within the dynamical mean-field approximation. We trace the genesis of a metal-insulator transition induced by a crystal field and vanishing of the Kondo quasiparticle peak in strongly correlated orbitally asymmetric systems.

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