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arXiv:0807.0972 · Physical Review B

Canonical representation for electrons and its application to the Hubbard model

Brijesh Kumar

Published May 19, 2008• 29 citations
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Abstract

A new representation for electrons is introduced, in which the electron operators are written in terms of a spinless fermion and the Pauli operators. This representation is canonical, invertible, and constraint-free. Importantly, it simplifies the Hubbard interaction. On a bipartite lattice, the Hubbard model is reduced to a form in which the exchange interaction simply emerges by decoupling the Pauli subsystem from the spinless fermion bath. This exchange correctly reproduces the large $U$ superexchange. Also derived, for $U=\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}\ensuremath{\infty}$, is the Hamiltonian to study Nagaoka ferromagnetism. In this representation, the infinite-$U$ Hubbard problem becomes elegant and easier to handle. Interestingly, the ferromagnetism in the Hubbard model is found to be related to the gauge invariance of the spinless fermions. A generalization of this representation for the multicomponent fermions, a new representation for bosons, the notion of a ``soft-core'' fermion, and some interesting unitary transformations are introduced and discussed in the appendixes.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.77.205115

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An interacting spin-fermion model is exactly solved on an open chain. In a certain representation, it is the nearest-neighbor Hubbard model in the limit of infinite UUU (local interaction). Exact solution of its complete energy eigenspectrum is accomplished by introducing a unitary transformation which maps the original problem to a tight-binding model of the fermions only. Physically, the exact solution implies the absence of Nagaoka ferromagnetism in the ground state for arbitrary electron densities. The present method solves a class of very general models exactly. Few more problems are discussed as an application of this unitary transform method.
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The Hubbard model is used to study an electronic system. In this paper we present the new path integral representation for Hubbard model. We have constructed the new supercoherent state for spinless electrons which appears from a set of eigenfunctions of atomic limit of strongly correlated systems. Exact calculation of nonlinear representation of a supergroup has been carried. This group defines the transformation of atomic base. The general formalism we elaborate for Hubbard model is the one widely used in the gauge field theory of the nonlinear representation of a superconformal group.
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