The Mott metal-insulator transition in the two-dimensional Hubbard model - a cellular dynamical mean-field study on large clusters

We study the half-filled two-dimensional Hubbard model on a square lattice in cellular dynamical mean-field theory (CDMFT), a real-space cluster extension [1] of the dynamical mean-field theory. By increasing the number of cluster sites up to 6x6 we observe a progressive reduction of the onset interaction U* of a metal-insulator crossover. In particular, in the case of 4x4 sites, we observe a site-dependent U, which is lower at the center sites is lower than at the corner sites. In addition to this real-space analysis we investigate different periodization schemes for the one-particle spectral function and argue that a center-focused [2] cumulant scheme is well-suited in the intermediate coupling regime of U due to its locality.