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Physical review. B, Condensed matter

Dynamics of a hole in thet-Jmodel with local disorder: Exact results for high dimensions

Rainer Strack, D. Vollhardt

Published Dec 1, 1992• 50 citations
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Abstract

We investigate the t-J model including local disorder for a hole in an antiferromagnetic spin background on a hypercubic lattice in d dimensions. We show that the well-known approximation of a linear potential, caused by the Ising term of the spin-spin interaction, is correct up to order 1/${\mathit{d}}^{2}$ and hence becomes exact in d=\ensuremath{\infty}. We also investigate the influence of disorder and compute exactly the Green function and the density of states for a hole in an antiferromagnetic spin background for arbitrary disorder and J in the limit d\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\ensuremath{\infty}. Moreover, for finite J and disorder we determine the dynamical conductivity in high dimensions exactly. Remarkable structure both in the density of states and in the dynamical conductivity is found. Finally, we systematically derive the retraceable path approximation by Brinkman and Rice via a self-consistent 1/d expansion, which is correct up to order 1/${\mathit{d}}^{4}$.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.46.13852

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The quasiparticle weight of a single hole in an antiferromagnetic background is studied in the semiclassical approximation. We start from the $t\ensuremath{-}J$ model, generalize it to arbitrary spin S by employing an appropriate coherent state representation for the hole, and derive an effective action for the dynamics in the long-wavelength low-energy limit. In the same limit, we find an expression for the single-hole Green's function which we evaluate in an 1/S1/S1/S expansion. Our approach has the advantage of being applicable in one and in two dimensions. We find two qualitatively different results in these two cases: while in one dimension our results are compatible with a vanishing quasiparticle weight, this weight is found to be finite in two dimensions, indicating normal quasiparticle behavior of the hole in this last case.
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