New Phases in an Extended Hubbard Model Explicitly Including Atomic Polarizabilities

We consider the influence of a nearest-neighbor Coulomb interaction in an extended Hubbard model and introduce a new interaction term which simulates atomic polarizabilities. This has the effect of screening the on-site Coulomb interaction for charged excitations, unlike a neighbor Coulomb interaction which reduces energies of locally neutral excitations. We find that the spin density to charge density wave phase transition, however, is determined by the unscreened on-site Coulomb repulsion. The order of this phase transition is affected by polarization. We show that new phases appear, one of which is ferroelectric, when atomic polarizabilities are explicitly included.