Using a positive semidefinite operator technique we deduce exact ground states for a zig-zag hexagon chain described by a non-integrable Hubbard model with on-site repulsion. Flat bands are not present in the bare band structure, and the operators , introducing the electrons into the ground state, are all extended operators and confined in the quasi-1D chain structure of the system. Consequently, by increasing the number of carriers, the operators become connected, i.e. touch each other on several lattice sites. Hence the spin projection of the carriers becomes correlated in order to minimize the ground-state energy by reducing as much as possible the double occupancy leading to a ferromagnetic ground state. This result demonstrates in exact terms in a many-body frame that the conjecture made at the two-particle level by G. Brocks et al., [Phys. Rev. 93 (2004) p.146405.] that the Coulomb interaction is expected to stabilize correlated magnetic ground states in acenes, is clearly viable, and opens up new directions in the search for routes in obtaining organic ferromagnetism. Due to the itinerant nature of the obtained ferromagnetic ground state, the systems under discussion may also have direct application possibilities in spintronics.
Using a positive semidefinite operator technique we deduce exact ground states for a zig-zag hexagon chain described by a non-integrable Hubbard model with on-site repulsion. Flat bands are not present in the bare band structure, and the operators , introducing the electrons into the ground state, are all extended operators and confined in the quasi-1D chain structure of the system. Consequently, by increasing the number of carriers, the operators become connected, i.e. touch each other on several lattice sites. Hence the spin projection of the carriers becomes correlated in order to minimize the ground-state energy by reducing as much as possible the double occupancy leading to a ferromagnetic ground state. This result demonstrates in exact terms in a many-body frame that the conjecture made at the two-particle level by G. Brocks et al., [Phys. Rev. 93 (2004) p.146405.] that the Coulomb interaction is expected to stabilize correlated magnetic ground states in acenes, is clearly viable, and opens up new directions in the search for routes in obtaining organic ferromagnetism. Due to the itinerant nature of the obtained ferromagnetic ground state, the systems under discussion may also have direct application possibilities in spintronics.
We construct a class of exact ground states for correlated electrons on pentagon chains in the high density region and discuss their physical properties. In this procedure the Hamiltonian is first cast in a positive semidefinite form using composite operators as a linear combination of creation operators acting on the sites of finite blocks. In the same step, the interaction is also transformed to obtain terms which require for their minimum eigenvalue zero at least one electron on each site. The transformed Hamiltonian matches the original Hamiltonian through a nonlinear system of equations whose solutions place the deduced ground states in restricted regions of the parameter space. In the second step, nonlocal product wave functions in position space are constructed. They are proven to be unique ground states which describe non-saturated ferromagnetic and correlated half metallic states. These solutions emerge when the strength of the Hubbard interaction Ui is site-dependent inside the unit cell. In the deduced phases, the interactions tune the bare dispersive band structure such to develop an effective upper flat band. We show that this band flattening effect emerges for a broader class of chains and is not restricted to pentagon chains. For the characterization of the deduced solutions, uniqueness proofs, exact ground state expectation values for long-range hopping amplitudes and correlation functions are also calculated. The study of physical reasons which lead to the appearance of ferromagnetism has revealed a new mechanism for the emergence of an ordered phase, described here in detail. This works as follows: starting from a completely dispersive bare band structure, the interactions quench the kinetic energy, hence the ordered phase is obtained solely by a drastic decrease of the interaction energy. Since Ui are site dependent, this determinative decrease is obtained by a redistribution of the double occupancy di such to attain small di where the on-site Coulomb repulsion Ui is high, and vice versa. The kinetic energy quench leads to the upper effective flat band, whose role is to enhance by its degeneracy the switching to the ordered phase dictated and stabilized by the interactions present. It is shown that for this phenomenon to occur, a given degree of complexity is needed for the chain, and the mechanism becomes inactive when the Ui interactions are homogeneous, or are missing from the ground state wave function.
We model conducting pentagon chains with a multi-orbital Hubbard model and prove that well below half filling, exact ferromagnetic ground states appear. The rigorous method we use is based on the transformation of original hamiltonian into positive semidefinite form. This technique is independent of the spatial dimension and does not require integrability of the model. The obtained ferromagnetism is connected to dispersionless bands but in a much broader sense than flat-band ferromagnetism requires, where on every site a Hubbard term is present. In our case, only a small percentage of, even randomly distributed, sites are only interacting.
We construct exact ground states of interacting electrons on triangle and diamond Hubbard chains. The construction requires (i) a rewriting of the Hamiltonian into positive semidefinite form, (ii) the construction of a many-electron ground state of this Hamiltonian, and (iii) the proof of the uniqueness of the ground state. This approach works in any dimension, requires no integrability of the model, and only demands sufficiently many microscopic parameters in the Hamiltonian which have to fulfill certain relations. The scheme is first employed to construct exact ground state for the diamond Hubbard chain in a magnetic field. These ground states are found to exhibit a wide range of properties such as flat-band ferromagnetism and correlation induced metallic, half-metallic or insulating behavior, which can be tuned by changing the magnetic flux, local potentials, or electron density. Detailed proofs of the uniqueness of the ground states are presented. By the same technique exact ground states are constructed for triangle Hubbard chains and a one-dimensional periodic Anderson model with nearest-neighbor hybridization. They permit direct comparison with results obtained by variational techniques for f-electron ferromagnetism due to a flat band in CeRh3B2.
Abstract. We study the influence of on-site disorder on the magnetic properties of the ground state of the infinite-U one-dimensional (1D) Hubbard model. We find that the ground state is not ferromagnetic. This is analysed in terms of the algebraic structure of the spin dependence of the Hamiltonian. A simple explanation is derived for the 1=N periodicity in the persistent current for this model. The Hubbard model is the simplest model one can study to examine the effects of correlations between electrons in narrow energy bands. The Hamiltonian consists of a nearest neighbour hopping term and an electron–electron repulsion, U, which acts only when two electrons are on the same site. The Hubbard model is also the canonical model for the study of itinerant ferromagnetism. The strong coupling regime is of special importance for the study of ferromagnetism, since a theorem by Nagaoka [1] states that in theU D 1 limit, the ground state (GS) is ferromagnetic given some connectivity property of the lattice (which holds in most cases for d> 1). The model is solvable in one dimension and it was shown [2] that for open boundary conditions (BCs) the GS for finiteU is a singlet, i.e. there can be no ferromagnetism unless one postulates explicitly spin- or velocity-dependent forces. For infinite U, the GS of
We set up and describe in details an exact solution procedure for a 2D itinerant correlated fermionic many-body system in the presence of spin-orbit interactions, onsite Coulomb repulsion in the correlated band, and in-plane external magnetic fields.The model is non-integrable, but using the method based on positive semidefinite operator properties, exact ground states are provided below half filling, at 3/4, and above 3/4 filling.The presented technique provides the possibility to study in exact terms a 2D phenomenon with broad applicability in leading technologies. I.
The origin of metallic ferromagnetism is a long-standing problem in condensed matter physics, because it is a strong coupling phenomenon essentially. It was also known that one dimensional systems have a lesser chance of showing ferromagnetism in the ground states. In fact, for a class of one-dimensional correlated electron systems including the simple Hubbard chain, the ground state was proved to be nonmagnetic. Several authors have been studied whether ferromagnetism is stabilized or not by taking neglected terms in the simple Hubbard chain into account. It was shown that a positive next-nearest neighbor hopping leads to ferromagnetism for less-than-half filled systems in strong correlation regime on the basis of DMRG calculations. We call this model the railroad–trestle-lattice Hubbard model below. The railroad–trestle lattice is graphically shown in Fig. 1. In this article, we treat the problem of ferromagnetism of the nearly half-filled extended Hubbard ladder with an additional intersite repulsion V . The Hamiltonian is H 1⁄4 t P hi; ji; ðc y i cj þ c y j ci Þ þU P i nini# þV P hi; ji ninj, where ci represent electron creation operators, ni 1⁄4 P c y i ci , and hi; ji denotes nearest-neighbor pairs of the sites on the two-leg ladder. Vojta et al. made a DMRG study of this model in strong coupling region. Tsuchiizu and Suzumura recently studied this model by using the weakcoupling bosonization method, motivated by the experimental observation of a charge-density-wave in the selfdoped ladder compound Sr14 xCaxCu24O41. 7,8) We first mention the half-filled case, i.e., electron density n 1⁄4 1. When U < 3V , the ground state has the checkerboard-type charge-ordering shown in Fig. 2 due to the intersite repulsion. (The sublattice consisting of doubly occupied sites is defined as A-sublattice.) Our main concern is what happens when holes are doped into this chargeordered insulating state. By using the DMRG method, Vojta et al. calculated the checkerboard-type charge-ordering correlation function from quarter-filling to half-filling, 1=2 n 1, where U 1⁄4 8t was chosen. They confirmed that the long-range charge-order correlation is obtained for V VcðnÞ ’ U=3. They also found that the total spin of the doped charge-ordering state is not zero, i.e., the charge ordering coexists with ferromagnetism. However, the origin of this ferromagnetism was not clarified. The main purpose of this paper is to get intuitive understanding of the ferromagnetism in the doped charge-ordered state. In order to attack this issue, we assume t U, V and use strong coupling expansion. Then, we calculate the effective Hamiltonian for holes doped into the charge-ordered state at half-filling. When holes are introduced, they enter the A-sublattice sites [see Fig. 3(a)]. If we totally neglect the bare hopping term in H, then we have the ground state degeneracy concerned with the way of arrangement of doped holes. The introduction of the bare hopping term resolves this degeneracy and is expected to induce an ordering of the doped holes. In order to write down the second-order effective Hamiltonian with respect to t, it is convenient to carry out the particle–hole transformation for the A-sublattice according to c‘ 1⁄4 a‘ , where a y ‘ are the creation operators of the A-sublattice holes. Within the two-hole approximation, we obtain the following effective Hamiltonian: