Mott transition, magnetic and orbital orders in the ground state of the two-band Hubbard model using variational slave-spin mean field formalism

We study the ground state phase diagram of the degenerate two-band Hubbard model at integer fillings as a function of onsite Hubbard interaction U and Hund's exchange coupling J. We use a variational slave-spin mean field method which allows symmetry broken states to be studied within the computationally less intensive slave-spin mean field formalism. The results show that at half-filling, the ground state at smaller U is a Slater...