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arXiv:1701.00035 · Physical review. B./Physical review. B

Magnetism, transport, and thermodynamics in two-dimensional half-filled Hubbard superlattices

Rubem Mondaini, Thereza Paiva

Published Feb 23, 2017• 11 citations
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Abstract

We study magnetic, transport, and thermodynamic properties of the half-filled two-dimensional $(2D)$ Hubbard model with layered distributed repulsive interactions using unbiased finite temperature quantum Monte Carlo simulations. Antiferromagnetic long-ranged correlations at $T=0$ are confirmed by means of the magnetic structure factor and the onset of short-ranged ones is at a minimum temperature, which can be obtained by peaks in susceptibility and specific heat following a random-phase-approximation (RPA) prediction. We also show that transport is affected in the large interaction limit and is enhanced in the nonrepulsive layers suggesting a change of dimensionality induced by increased interactions. Lastly, we show that by adiabatically switching the interactions in layered distributed patterns reduces the overall temperature of the system with a potential application in cooling protocols in cold atoms systems.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.95.075142

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We present results of Monte Carlo simulations of the three-dimensional half-filled Hubbard model on simple-cubic 43{4}^{3}43 lattices and some 63{6}^{3}63 lattices with periodic boundary conditions, as well as of small clusters embedded in an effective medium. Magnetic properties were studied for values of the Hubbard repulsion U ranging from 0 to the bandwidth W=12t (t is the hopping matrix element). Our results show that antiferromagnetism is enhanced up to U\ensuremath{\sim}(5/6)W and then suppressed. The q=0 magnetic susceptibility is enhanced by U, although much less than predicted by the random-phase approximation. The transition temperature to an antiferromagnetic state is found to have a broad maximum around U\ensuremath{\sim}(5/6)W, with a maximum value of approximately W/18. The implications of our results for superconductivity in the attractive Hubbard model are also discussed.
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