The periodized cluster dynamical mean-field theory (PCDMFT) combined with exact diagonalization as the impurity solver has been applied to the half-filled standard Hubbard model on the honeycomb lattice. A correlated Dirac semimetal is found for weak interactions and it transforms into an antiferromagnetic insulating phase for strong interactions via a first-order quantum phase transition, not intervened by a spin liquid phase in between. In this application, the PCDMFT introduces the partial translation symmetry, but cures well the problem caused by the translation symmetry breaking in the cluster dynamical mean-field theory studies for the same model, which gives rise to a spurious insulating phase in the weakly interacting region.

• Received 9 July 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.92.155127