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Electrical field induced shift of the Mott Metal-Insulator transition in thin films D. Nasr Esfahani, L. Covaci and F. M. Peeters Departement Fysica, Universiteit Antwerpen, Groenenborgerlaan 171, B-2020 Antwerpen, Belgium The ground state properties of a paramagnetic Mott insulator are investigated in the presence of an external electrical field using the inhomogeneous Gutzwiller approximation for a single band Hubbard model in a slab geometry. The metal insulator transition is shifted towards higher Hubbard repulsions by applying an electric field perpendicular to the slab. The spatial distribution of site dependent quasiparticle weight shows that the quasiparticle weight is maximum in few layers beneath the surface. Moreover only at higher Hubbard repulsion, larger than the bulk critical U, the electric 1 field will be totally screened only for centeral cites. Our results show that by presence of an electric 1 field perpendicular to a thin film made of a strongly correlated material, states near the surface will 0 remain metallic while the bulk becomes insulating after some critical U. In contrast, in the absence 2 of the electric field the surface becomes insulating before the bulk. p PACS numbers: 71.30.+h, 71.27.+a, 73.61.-r e S 5 I. INTRODUCTION trons. Also, GA cannot give any information about the insulating state, instead we are only able to investigate ]