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Journal de Physique I

Spin excitations carry charge currents: one-dimensional Hubbard model

S. Brazovskiǐ, Sergey I. Matveenko, Ph. Nozières

Published Apr 1, 1994• 13 citations
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Abstract

The problem of spin-charge separation is addressed by considering current carrying states in a one-dimensional system of interacting electrons. Exact results for the Hubbard model and the bosonization method are exploited. We find that away from half filling both spin and charge excitations carry charge currents which are proportional to their momenta for most cases. Being in a qualitative agreement with the noninteracting ld Fermi gas picture, this result contradicts the spin-charge separation concept as it is usually derived e.g. from the bosonization approach or in a strong repulsion picture. For weak coupling the paradox is resolved by taking into account the Fermi velocity dispersion and by reexamining the structure of the current operator within the bosonization approach. For strong coupling we recover an effect of hale drag by a spinon as reflected in their momentum shifts.

DOI
10.1051/jp1:1994161

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The problem of spin-charge separation is addressed by considering current carrying states in a one-dimensional system of interacting electrons. Exact results for the Hubbard model and the bosonization method are exploited. We find that away from half filling both spin and charge excitations carry charge currents which are proportional to their momenta for most cases. Being in a qualitative agreement with the noninteracting ld Fermi gas picture, this result contradicts the spin-charge separation concept as it is usually derived e.g. from the bosonization approach or in a strong repulsion picture. For weak coupling the paradox is resolved by taking into account the Fermi velocity dispersion and by reexamining the structure of the current operator within the bosonization approach. For strong coupling we recover an effect of hale drag by a spinon as reflected in their momentum shifts.
We study the charge and spin currents transported by the elementary excitations of the one-dimensional (1D) Hubbard model and derive the corresponding current spectra. We present results both for finite-size systems and in the thermodynamic limit. This includes finding the couplings of both the low-energy and finite-energy (string) excitations to external charge and spin probes. At zero magnetic field the general structure of the charge-spin separation survives at all energy scales and the effective charges of both the low-energy and finite-energy charge excitations are studied as functions of the on-site Coulomb interaction U , electronic density n , and applied magnetic field H . In some limits the effective charge of the low-energy excitations equals that of the electrons, whereas that of the finite-energy charge-string excitations of rapidity length γ is found to be 2γ times the electronic charge. At U = ∞ the spin excitations do not contribute to spin transport, whereas the low-energy charge excitations feel an effective flux given by (ϕ ↑ N ↑ -ϕ ↓ N ↓ )/( N ↑ + N ↓ ), where N σ is the number of electrons of spin σ and ϕ σ is a spin-dependent flux. This reveals that at zero magnetic field and U = ∞ there is no spin transport, while at finite magnetic field the low-energy charge excitations also carry spin. In the U >> t limit the spin is carried both by holons and spinons. Finally, we find that the charge- and spin-current spectra can be derived from a semi-classical approach.
We demonstrate that the configuration interaction (CI) approximation recaptures essential features of the exact (Bethe-ansatz) solution to the one-dimensional (1D) Hubbard model. As such, it provides a valuable route for describing effects that go beyond mean-field theory for strongly correlated electron systems in higher dimensions. The CI method systematically describes fluctuation and quantum tunneling corrections to the Hartree-Fock approximation (HFA). HFA predicts that doping a half-filled Hubbard chain leads to the appearance of charged spin polarons or charged domain-wall solitons in the antiferromagnetic background. The CI method, on the other hand, describes the quantum dynamics of these charged magnetic solitons and quantum tunneling effects between various mean-field configurations. In this paper, we test the accuracy of the CI method against the exact solution of the one-dimensional Hubbard model. We find remarkable agreement between the energy of the mobile charged bosonic domain wall (as given by the CI method) and the exact energy of the doping hole (as given by the Bethe ansatz) for the entire U/tU/tU/t range. The CI method also leads to a clear demonstration of the spin-charge separation in one dimension. Addition of one doping hole to the half-filled antiferromagnetic chain results in the appearance of two different carriers: a charged bosonic domain wall (which carries the charge but no spin) and a neutral spin-1/2 domain wall (which carries the spin but no charge).
In this paper we study the charge and spin currents transported by the elementary excitations of the one-dimensional Hubbard model. The corresponding current spectra are obtained by both analytic methods and numerical solution of the Bethe-ansatz equations. For the case of half-filling, we find that the spin-triplet excitations carry spin but no charge, while charge ηηη-spin triplet excitations carry charge but no spin, and both spin-singlet and charge ηηη-spin-singlet excitations carry neither spin nor charge currents.
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