Magnetic properties of the two-dimensional Hubbard-model are inferred from results of Monte Carlo simulations. Lattice sizes up to 8\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}8 and temperatures down to
T=20t (
t=hopping) were studied. The half-filled system is found to exhibit antiferromagnetic long-range order for all values of the Coulomb repulsion
U. The low-temperature magnetic properties are found to be well described by spin-wave theory with renormalized local moment and spin-wave velocity. Numerical evidence presented suggests that when doped the system loses the long-range order immediately away from half filling.
The two-dimensional Hubbard model in the presence of diagonal and off-diagonal disorder is studied at half-filling with a finite-temperature quantum Monte Carlo method. Magnetic correlations as well as the electronic compressibility are calculated to determine the behavior of local magnetic moments, the stability of antiferromagnetic long-range order (AFLRO), and properties of the disordered phase. The existence of random potentials (diagonal or ``site'' disorder) leads to a suppression of local magnetic moments which eventually destroys AFLRO. Randomness in the hopping elements (off-diagonal disorder), on the other hand, does not significantly reduce the density of local magnetic moments. For this type of disorder, at half-filling, there is no ``sign problem'' in the simulations as long as the hopping is restricted between neighbor sites on a bipartite lattice. This allows the study of sufficiently large lattices and low temperatures to perform a finite-size scaling analysis. For off-diagonal disorder, AFLRO is eventually destroyed when the fluctuations of antiferromagnetic exchange couplings exceed a critical value. The disordered phase close to the transition appears to be incompressible, and shows an increase of the uniform susceptibility at low temperatures.
We study the magnetic properties of the two-dimensional Hubbard model with nearest-neighbor (t) and next-nearest-neighbor (
t2) hopping and on-site repulsion U. We first calculate the mean-field phase diagram as a function of band filling and U. Because of the Van Hove singularity in the density of states, we find a ferromagnetic phase extending to zero U for certain band filling. For the half-filled band case, antiferromagnetism sets in at a finite value of U if
t2\ensuremath{\ne}0. We study the behavior of spin-spin correlation functions for small lattices of up to N=64 atoms using Monte Carlo simulations, as well as exact diagonalization for N=4. Our results show enhanced ferromagnetic correlations in some regions, but apparently no ferromagnetic long-range order. In the half-filled case, our numerical results are consistent with a nonzero critical U. For a non-half-filled band our results suggest that there is no long-range order.