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arXiv:1310.4391 · Physical Review Letters

Exact Results for Itinerant Ferromagnetism in Multiorbital Systems on Square and Cubic Lattices

Yi Li, Élliott H. Lieb, Congjun Wu

Published May 27, 2014• 44 citations
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Abstract

We study itinerant ferromagnetism in multiorbital Hubbard models in certain two-dimensional square and three-dimensional cubic lattices. In the strong coupling limit where doubly occupied orbitals are not allowed, we prove that the fully spin-polarized states are the unique ground states, apart from the trivial spin degeneracies, for a large region of filling factors. Possible applications to $p$-orbital bands with ultracold fermions in optical lattices, and electronic $3d$-orbital bands in transition-metal oxides, are discussed.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.112.217201

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Whether spin-independent Coulomb interaction can be the origin of a realistic ferromagnetism in an itinerant electron system has been an open problem for a long time. Here we study a class of Hubbard models on decorated lattices, which have a special property that the corresponding single-electron Schrödinger equation has NdN_{\rm d}Nd​-fold degenerate ground states. The degeneracy NdN_{\rm d}Nd​ is proportional to the total number of sites $\absΛ$. We prove that the ground states of the models exhibit ferromagnetism when the electron filling factor is not more than and sufficiently close to $ρ_0=N_{\rm d}/(2\absΛ)$, and paramagnetism when the filling factor is sufficiently small. An important feature of the present work is that it provides examples of three dimensional itinerant electron systems which are proved to exhibit ferromagnetism in a finite range of the electron filling factor.
We studied ferromagnetism in the one-dimensional Hubbard model with doubly degenerate atomic orbitals by means of the density-matrix renormalization-group method and obtained the ground-state phase diagrams. It was found that ferromagnetism is stable from low to high (0<n<1.75)(0<n<1.75)(0<n<1.75) electron density when the interactions are sufficiently strong. The quasi-long-range order of triplet superconductivity coexists with the ferromagnetic order for a strong Hund coupling region, where the interorbital interaction ${U}^{\ensuremath{'}}\ensuremath{-}J$ is attractive. At quarter-filling (n=1),(n=1),(n=1), the insulating ferromagnetic state appears, accompanying orbital quasi-long-range order. For low densities (n<1),(n<1),(n<1), ferromagnetism occurs owing to the ferromagnetic exchange interaction caused by virtual hoppings of electrons, the same as in the quarter-filled system. This comes from separation of the charge and spin-orbital degrees of freedom in the strong-coupling limit. This ferromagnetism is fragile against variation of band structure. For high densities (n>1),(n>1),(n>1), the phase diagram of the ferromagnetic phase is similar to that obtained in infinite dimensions. In this case, the double exchange mechanism is operative for stabilizing the ferromagnetic order and this long-range order is robust against variation of the band dispersion. A partially polarized state appears in the density region $1.68\ensuremath{\lesssim}n\ensuremath{\lesssim}1.75$ and phase separation occurs for n just below the half-filling (n=2).(n=2).(n=2).
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