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Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

The spectrum of two-particle excitations of the Hubbard Hamiltonian

V. Drchal

Published Jul 24, 1989• 14 citations
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Abstract

The spectra of two-hole and two-electron excitations are calculated for a single-band Hubbard Hamiltonian. These spectra are directly connected with the intensity of CVV Auger spectra and with the appearance potential spectra of transition metals with strong electron-electron interactions. The theory is based on a local decoupling procedure applied to the retarded two-particle double-time Green functions in the site representation. It is exact in four important limiting cases: in the non-interacting limit (U to 0), in the atomic limit (band width W to 0), in the limit of low concentration of electrons (n to 0) and holes (n to 2), and it provides a physically reasonable interpolation between these limits. In contrast with previous similar theories, it has proper transformation properties under the electron-hole transformation. The theory is illustrated numerically in a simplified model.

DOI
10.1088/0953-8984/1/29/004

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A theory of the single-particle excitation spectrum is presented on the basis of the projection operator method combined with the many-body coherent-potential approximation (CPA). The theory describes the dynamics of the excitations by means of an energy-dependent Liouville operator accompanied by a coherent potential which is determined by the self-consistent CPA condition. It is shown that the present theory is essentially equivalent to the dynamical CPA and the dynamical mean-field theory. The Hubbard III approximation and the modified perturbation theory are rederived from the theory. A renormalized perturbation scheme for the Green function is developed on the basis of a general formula for the memory function. It interpolates between the weak- and strong-Coulomb interaction limits, and yields the metal-insulator transition for half-filled bands. Numerical calculations have been performed for the Gutzwiller-Hubbard model on a hypercubic lattice in infinite dimensions. The results show that the theory describes quantitatively the quasiparticle weight vs Coulomb interaction curve, yielding a reasonable critical Coulomb interaction for the metal-insulator transition. It produces the overall features of the excitation spectra and the momentum distributions for various Coulomb interaction strengths.
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The single-band Hubbard Hamiltonian [1] is the simplest model of interacting electrons in a lattice.It was developed by John Hubbard, who introduced the model to take into account the local electronic correlations in narrow energy bands.The model has a kinetic term that allows hopping of electrons between atomic sites and a term that considers the on-site interaction between electrons.This model is largely used in solid state physics to study magnetic properties of solids, insulator-metal transition (Mott transition) and high temperature superconductors.However, this is a problem that has exact analytical solution in a very few limiting cases and must be treated approximately or numerically.In this work, we propose a new methodology to analytically solve the Hubbard Hamiltonian, mapping it into a two-site model (the Hubbard dimer).To obtain the Green's function for the lattice, we employed the cumulant expansion technique, using as a 'seed' the exact two-site Green's function (the atomic method) [2].From the Green's function, we obtained the density of states [DOS] and the occupation numbers as functions of the external parameters of the model, and compared the results with the Hubbard I approximation [1].
We study excitation-spectrum and normal-state properties of the two-dimensional attractive Hubbard model using the conserving, self-consistent T-matrix formalism in the intermediate coupling regime and at low electron concentration. Numerical results are presented for one-particle and two-particle excitation spectra, the one-particle momentum distribution, the chemical potential, and the static spin susceptibility. For a coupling strength of U/t=4.0, the one-particle spectral function, A(k,\ensuremath{\omega}), shows two peaks of different weights. One peak can be associated with pair formation, whereas the other corresponds to renormalized quasiparticle excitation. It turns out that the two-band feature is reasonably well described by an ansatz for A(k,\ensuremath{\omega}), which satisfies the first four frequency moments.
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