The two-particle self-consistent approach (TPSC) is a method for the one-band Hubbard model that can be both numerically efficient and reliable. However, TPSC fails to yield physical results deep in the renormalized classical regime of the bidimensional Hubbard model where the spin correlation length becomes exponentially large. We address the limitations of TPSC with improved approaches that we call TPSC+ and TPSC+SFM (spin fluctuation mediated). In this work, we show that these improved methods satisfy the Mermin-Wagner theorem and the Pauli principle. We also show that they are valid in the renormalized classical regime of the two-dimensional Hubbard model, where they recover a generalized Stoner criterion at zero temperature in the antiferromagnetic phase. We discuss some limitations of the TPSC+ approach with regards to the violation of the
f-sum rule and conservation laws, which are solved within the TPSC+SFM framework. Finally, we benchmark the TPSC+ and TPSC+SFM approaches for the one-band Hubbard model in two dimensions and show how they have an overall better agreement with available diagrammatic Monte Carlo results than the original TPSC approach.
Recently, a quantum simulator for the two-dimensional Fermi-Hubbard model on an anisotropic triangular lattice has been realized, where both geometrical frustration and doping can be continuously tuned. Here, we provide a comprehensive comparison between the magnetic correlations calculated by the two-particle self-consistent (TPSC) theory and those measured in this quantum simulator, at temperatures comparable to the spin-exchange energy and Hubbard interactions comparable to the bandwidth. We find overall excellent agreements between the TPSC calculations and the measurements from the quantum simulator at all levels of frustration and doping. This is quite remarkable considering that the Hubbard model is already in the intermediate- to strong-coupling regime, for which very few methods yield reliable results. Our work showcases the potential of TPSC as a theoretical approach capable of providing reasonably accurate descriptions of the Hubbard model even at fairly strong interactions and when the frustration is present.
The atomic limit of the Hubbard model is a simple single-site problem which can be solved exactly, and all one- and two-particle Green's functions can be obtained analytically. These solutions can thus serve as a means of critiquing the success of various approximate theories which might be applied to the full Hubbard model. In particular, we have examined the
T-matrix approximation for the attractive Hubbard model in the atomic limit, which should give reasonable results at low electronic densities, if one can avoid the spurious phase transition that results when a fully non-self-consistent
T-matrix approximation is employed---previously we have shown that any level of self-consistency guarantees that this phase transition is correctly suppressed to zero temperature in two dimensions or less. Here, a minimally self-consistent
T-matrix approximation is shown to be successful in reproducing the exact results for the atomic limit, while fully self-consistent
T-matrix results do not agree with the known solutions. Of particular note is that the minimally self-consistent
T-matrix approximation reproduces not only one- and two-particle (static) thermodynamic quantities, but it also exactly reproduces the one-particle spectral function at low but nonzero temperatures. We also make a comparison to the two-particle self-consistent approach of Vilk and Tremblay, and find that the minimally self-consistent
T-matrix theory can give better results over a broader temperature range.