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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Spinons and holons for the one-dimensional three-band Hubbard models of high-temperature superconductors.

Jamil Tahir‐Kheli, William A. Goddard

Published Nov 1, 1993• 2 citations
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Abstract

The one-dimensional three-band Hubbard Hamiltonian is shown to be equivalent to an effective Hamiltonian that has independent spinon and holon quasiparticle excitations plus a weak coupling of the two. The spinon description includes both copper sites and oxygen hole sites leading to a one-dimensional antiferromagnet incommensurate with the copper lattice. The holons are spinless noninteracting fermions in a simple cosine band. Because the oxygen sites are in the Hamiltonian, the quasiparticles are much simpler than in the exact solution of the t-J model for 2t = +/- J. If a similar description is correct for two dimensions, then the holons will attract in a p-wave potential.

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10.1073/pnas.90.21.9959

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The one-dimensional three-band Hubbard Hamiltonian is shown to be equivalent to an effective Hamiltonian that has independent spinon and holon quasiparticle excitations plus a weak coupling of the two. The spinon description includes both copper sites and oxygen hole sites leading to a one-dimensional antiferromagnet incommensurate with the copper lattice. The holons are spinless noninteracting fermions in a simple cosine band. Because the oxygen sites are in the Hamiltonian, the quasiparticles are much simpler than in the exact solution of the t-J model for 2t = +/- J. If a similar description is correct for two dimensions, then the holons will attract in a p-wave potential.
A Hamiltonian for the motion of oxygen holes strongly coupled to the Cu spins in a one-dimensional (1D) Cu-O lattice is solved exactly for all dopings. This Hamiltonian retains the dominant O-hole hopping term, that is, spin-exchange hopping of the hole spin with the intervening Cu spin and neglects the weaker non-spin-exchange hopping term. The excitations naturally separate into two independent quasiparticles: spinons and holons. It is this Hamiltonian that should be taken as the correct zeroth-order Hamiltonian from which perturbation theory should be applied. We show that the spinon spectrum is the spectrum of the 1D antiferromagnet incommensurate with the Cu lattice and the holons are spinless noninteracting fermions in a cosine band. The Cu-Cu spin correlation in the ground state increases linearly with doping from antiferromagnetic (-0.443) at x=0 to ferromagnetic (\ensuremath{\approxeq}0.19) at x=1.
In this paper, the authors discuss a class of quasi-one-dimensional models containing both spins and charge, which share the same generic solutions. In particular, they concentrate on a Heisenberg model of a topologically frustrated antiferromagnet, and a d-p model for oxygen hole hopping in a subgeometry of the copper-oxygen plane of the perovskite superconductors. The outstanding feature of these models lies in the simplicity of their solutions: their ground states are exact and contain uncorrelated, short-ranged singlet pairs. Excitations in these models fall into two distinct classes, namely, spin-1/2 chargeless domain-wall excitations or 'spinons', together with their conjugate excitations, which take the form of spin-1/2 chargeless 'antispinon' domain walls in the Heisenberg model, and spinless charge+e hole excitations or 'holons' in the d-p model. In the case of the Heisenberg model, the authors have successfully constructed a sufficiently simple representation for the 'spinon' excitation which allows them to calculate its dispersion using elementary methods. This is therefore a concrete example of a 'spinon' excitation for which explicit representation has been possible.
Exotic elementary objects such as "holons" and "spinons", which are widely used in descriptions of correlated electrons in reduced spatial dimensions, were introduced from analysis of the excitation branches of one-dimensional (1D) models. The 1D Hubbard model with effective nearest-neighbor hopping integral t and on-site repulsion U is a prominent example. In the last twenty years a large number of angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy experiments as well as electron energy-loss spectroscopic studies and high-resolution resonant inelastic X-ray experiments on several quasi-1D metals and quasi-1D Mott-Hubbard insulators have observed separate charge and spin spectral features, which have been identified with "holons" and "spinons". The elementary objects emerging within non-perturbative 1D correlated systems play now the same role in actual low-dimensional materials as Fermi-liquid quasiparticles in three-dimensional metals. The main goal of this paper is the review of representations of the 1D Hubbard model physics in terms of elementary objects whose configurations generate the energy eigenstates from the electron or hole vacuum. In addition, the relation to the holon and spinon representations is discussed and clarified.
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A CuO chain with one or two holes doped is studied via the two-band Hubbard model in the large-U limit on a finite cluster. The quasiparticle band is Ek{\mathit{E}}_{\mathit{k}}Ek​\ensuremath{\sim}0.87J cos(2ka) with the bottom at ka=\ensuremath{\pi}/2. The quasiparticles are kinks which have the character of three-spin polarons. The copper spin excitations are incommensurate spin waves. The two doped holes repel each other very slightly, in contrast to the slight attraction in the t-J model. Spin-charge separation also occurs.
The ground state of the one-dimensional Hubbard Hamiltonian is discussed on the basis of the Bethe ansatz solution of Lieb and Wu. A simple analytical representation of the distribution functions for charge and spin degrees of freedom is derived. The elementary excitations are associated with electron-hole pairs of two pseudo-fermion systems, one for the charge, the other for the magnetic excitations. Spinons and holons correspond to ground state configurations of odd-numbered rings. It is argued that holons will form bound pairs in weakly coupled chains.