In this paper we describe the pseudoparticles, holons, and spinons whose occupancy configurations describe the energy eigenstates of the one-dimensional (1D) Hubbard model in terms of rotated electrons. Rotated electrons are related to electrons by a mere unitary transformation such that rotated electron double occupation is a good quantum number. Moreover, we introduce the concepts of local pseudoparticle and effective pseudoparticle lattice. Our findings provide useful information about the relation of the exotic pseudoparticles, holons, and spinons that diagonalize the non-perturbative many-electron problem to the original electrons. We provide an example showing how the derived local pseudoparticle representation can be used in the evaluation of finite-energy few-electron spectral function expressions.
In one-dimensional (1D) non-perturbative many-electron problems such as the 1D Hubbard model the electronic charge and spin degrees of freedom separate into exotic quantum objects. However, there are two different representations for such objects and associated scattering quantities whose relation is not well understood. Here we solve the problem by finding important information about the relation between the corresponding alternative choices for one-particle scattering states. Our study reveals why one of these representations, the {\it pseudofermion} representation, is the most suitable for the description of the unusual finite-energy spectral and dynamical properties of the model. This is a problem of physical importance, since the exotic independent charge and spin finite-energy spectral features observed by angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy in quasi-1D metals was found recently to correspond to the charge and spin quantum objects of the pseudofermion representation.
In the first paper of this series it was found that the
η-spin 1/2 holons, spin 1/2 spinons, and
c pseudoparticles whose occupancy configurations describe the energy eigenstates of the one-dimensional Hubbard model emerge from the electron - rotated-electron unitary transformation. In this second paper we discuss and clarify how the relation of the electrons to the above objects can be used in a program for evaluation of finite-energy few-electron spectral functions. As a first step, here we characterize the dominant holon and spinon microscopic physical processes that originate more than 99% of the few-electron spectral weight. These dominant processes are related to exact selection rules for the values of the number of holons and spinons generated or annihilated by application onto a ground state of rotated-electron operators. We also generalize the concepts of a lower Hubbard band and upper Hubbard bands to all values of on-site Coulombian repulsion.
In terms of electron processes, the 1D Hubbard model is a nonperturbative problem. That renders the description in terms of electron scattering of the microscopic processes that control the model properties a very difficult task. In this paper we study the corresponding scattering processes of the elementary objects whose occupancy configurations generate the energy eigenstates from the electron vacuum. Due to the related occurrence of an infinite set of conservation laws associated with the model integrability, such objects are found to undergo only zero-momentum forward-scattering collisions. The description of the model dynamical properties in terms of such elementary objects scattering events then drastically simplifies. The corresponding 1D Hubbard model scattering theory refers to arbitrary values of the densities and finite repulsive interaction U>0. Each ground-state - excited-state transition is associated with a well defined set of elementary zero-momentum forward-scattering events. The elementary-object scatterers dressed S matrix is expressed as a commutative product of S matrices, each corresponding to a two-object scattering event. This commutative factorization is stronger than the factorization associated with Yang-Baxter equation for the original spin-1/2 electron bare S matrix. The power-law singularities exponents in the finite-energy correlation-functions of the metallic phases of a wide class of 1D integrable and non-integrable systems are momentum dependent. In the present exactly solvable model such an exponent momentum dependence is controlled by the phase shifts and corresponding dressed S matrix considered in this paper.
We review the progress in the theory of one-dimensional (ID) Fermi liquids which has occurred over the past decade. The usual Fermi liquid theory, based on a quasi-particle picture, breaks down in one dimension because of the Peierls divergence in the particle-hole bubble, producing anomalous dimensions of operators, and because of charge-spin separation. Both are related to the importance of scattering processes transferring finite momentum. A description of the low-energy properties of gapless 1D quantum systems can be based on the exactly solvable Luttinger model which incorporates these features, and whose correlation functions can be calculated. Special properties of the eigenvalue spectrum, parameterized by one renormalized velocity and one effective coupling constant per degree of freedom, fully describe the physics of this model. Other gapless 1D models share these properties in a low-energy subspace. The concept of a "Luttinger liquid" implies that their low-energy properties are described by an effective Luttinger model, and constitutes the universality class of these quantum systems. Once the mapping on the Luttinger model is achieved, one has an asymptotically exact solution of the 1D many-body problem. Lattice models identified as Luttinger liquids include the 1D Hubbard model off half-filling, and variants such as the t-J- or the extended Hubbard model. In addition, 1D electron-phonon systems or metals with impurities can be Luttinger liquids, as well as the edge states in the quantum Hall effect.
In this paper a description of the Hubbard model on the square lattice with nearest-neighbor transfer integral
t, on-site repulsion
U, and
Na2≫1 sites consistent with its exact global
SO(3)×SO(3)×U(1) symmetry is constructed. Our studies profit from the interplay of that recently found global symmetry of the model on any bipartite lattice with the transformation laws under a suitable electron - rotated-electron unitary transformation of a well-defined set of operators and quantum objects. For
U/4t>0 the occupancy configurations of these objects generate the energy eigenstates that span the one- and two-electron subspace. Such a subspace as defined in this paper contains nearly the whole spectral weight of the excitations generated by application onto the zero-spin-density ground state of one- and two-electron operators. Our description involves three basic objects: charge
c fermions, spin-1/2 spinons, and
η-spin-1/2
η-spinons. Alike in chromodynamics the quarks have color but all quark-composite physical particles are color-neutral, the
η-spinon (and spinons) that are not invariant under that transformation have
η spin 1/2 (and spin 1/2) but are part of
η-spin-neutral (and spin-neutral)
2ν-
η-spinon (and
2ν-spinon) composite
ην fermions (and
sν fermions) where
ν=1,2,... is the number of
η-spinon (and spinon) pairs.The description introduced here is consistent with a Mott-Hubbard insulating ground state with antiferromagnetic long-range order for half filling at
x=0 hole concentration and a ground state with short-range spin order for a well-defined range of finite hole concentrations
x>0.