Dynamics in the one-dimensional extended ionic Hubbard model

We investigate single-particle spectral densities and dynamical charge and spin structure factors of the one-dimensional extended ionic Hubbard model in the band insulator regime by using the perturbative continuous unitary transformations method. The one-body staggered potential is considered as the unperturbed part and the hopping term, on-site electron-electron interaction, and the nearest-neighbor repulsive interaction are treated as the perturbations. The excitation spectrum of this model was determined in a previous work (Hafez and Jafari 2010 Eur. Phys. J. B 78 323). It was shown that when the intersite interaction is off, there are two antibound state modes and one bound state mode in the singlet channel and two bound state modes in the triplet channel, while for finite values of intersite interaction two bound state modes were found in each channel. Our results for dynamical charge and spin structure factors indicate that only one of two bound/antibound state modes can be probed by electron-energy-loss spectroscopy and inelastic neutron scattering experiments.