@article{WOS:000646763400004, abstract = {We demonstrate a mechanism for realizing ferrimagnetic metal, antiferromagnetic half-metal, and paramagnetic metal phases by tuning the onsite Coulomb repulsion U in a band insulator. In a simple model of a correlated band insulator, namely the ionic Hubbard model at half-filling, and in the presence of a second neighbor hopping, we show that as U is increased, first he insulating band gap is suppressed to zero at a critical U-1 and remains zero within the paramagnetic metallic phase. Interestingly, at a larger U-c, ferrimagnetic order turns on, leading to a ferrimagnetic metallic phase for U-c < U < U-2. For U > U-2, the system exhibits an antiferromagnetic half-metallic phase, followed finally by a transition into an antiferromagnetic Mott insulator. Our results, based on dynamical mean-field theory, suggest alternate routes for achieving magnetically ordered metallic and half-metallic phases which have potential applications in spintronics.}, article-number = {155132}, author = {Bag, Soumen and Garg, Arti and Krishnamurthy, H. R.}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.103.155132}, eissn = {2469-9969}, issn = {2469-9950}, journal = {PHYSICAL REVIEW B}, month = {APR 16}, number = {15}, orcid-numbers = {Garg, Arti/0000-0002-1905-2463}, title = {Correlation driven metallic and half-metallic phases in a band insulator}, unique-id = {WOS:000646763400004}, volume = {103}, year = {2021} }