For pt.I see Physics B, vol.163, p.527 (1990). An exact diagrammatic analysis of the electron self-energy in the Hubbard and related models is given within the local approximation. Contact is made with recent work for dimension d= infinity where the local approximation becomes exact. It is shown that the approximate method of paper I of the series may be fitted into the new framework and yields sensible results for the Anderson impurity model. This lends weight to the prediction of I that for paramagnetic solutions of the Hubbard model Fermi liquid behaviour breaks down in a whole region of the T=0 phase diagram, not just for a half-filled band where the Mott transition occurs.
For pt.I see Physics B, vol.163, p.527 (1990). An exact diagrammatic analysis of the electron self-energy in the Hubbard and related models is given within the local approximation. Contact is made with recent work for dimension d= infinity where the local approximation becomes exact. It is shown that the approximate method of paper I of the series may be fitted into the new framework and yields sensible results for the Anderson impurity model. This lends weight to the prediction of I that for paramagnetic solutions of the Hubbard model Fermi liquid behaviour breaks down in a whole region of the T=0 phase diagram, not just for a half-filled band where the Mott transition occurs.
The diagrammatic formulation of the single-site approximation to the Hubbard model immediately yields the exact solution to the Falikov-Kimball model in infinite dimensions. By an extension of the alloy analogy, we then derive a two-fluid model, dividing self-consistently the electron system among itinerating and relatively localized particles. Our theory coincides with the CPA only the at half-filling and u=∞. We start by studying the mean field approximation to our theory and identify a phase boundary in the particle density-interaction strength (n−u) plane at which the Fermi liquid model breaks down. Then the effect of fluctuations in the Fermi liquid regime is considered and, finally, we construct, at half-filling, a model which interpolates between the Fermi liquid and the Mott insulating phases.
We study the Hubbard model in dimension d= infinity , within an approximation that simultaneously reproduces the atomic limit and the weak-coupling limit up to second order in the interaction strength U. This method, which is a slightly modified version of an approximation suggested by Edwards and Hertz, is applied to the calculation of the self-energy and of the spectral function in the paramagnetic regime for different U, band fillings n, and temperatures T. We find Fermi-liquid behaviour for small U and (for half-filling n=0.5) a metal-insulator (Mott) transition at a critical value U cr , but also a metallic non-Fermi-liquid phase for intermediate values U<U cr . We compare our results with results obtained within the second-order perturbation theory in U and (at finite temperature) with the (essentially exact) quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) results. Qualitatively, the approximation reproduces the correct tendencies obtained by QMC, but in detail there are still discrepancies, in particular for intermediate values of U.
Abstract We present a T = 0 K renormalization group (RG) phase diagram for the electronic Hubbard model in two dimensions on the square lattice at half filling. The RG procedure treats quantum fluctuations in the single particle occupation number nonperturbatively via the unitarily decoupling of one electronic state at every RG step. The resulting phase diagram thus possesses the quantum fluctuation energy scale (ω) as one of its axes. A relation is derived between ω and the effective temperature scale upto which gapless, as well as emergent gapped phases can be obtained. We find that the normal and insulating phases of the half-filled Hubbard model correspond, for any on-site repulsion, to a marginal Fermi liquid normal phase and a topologically-ordered gapped Mott insulating liquid respectively. The marginal Fermi liquid is found to arise from singular forward scattering in directions normal to the nested Fermi surface, while singular backscattering events lead to Mott liquid state. The transition between these two phases involves passage through a pseudogapped phase bookended by Fermi surface topology-changing Lifshitz transitions. The pseudogap phase is observed to arise from the electronic differentiation encoded within the nested Fermi surface, and involves the gradual gapping of the Fermi surface from antinodes to nodes via charge and spin excitations that are mutually entangled. We obtain effective Hamiltonians for various phases, as well as wavefunctions for the low-energy many-body eigenstates of the Mott liquid. Benchmarking of the ground-state energy per particle and the double-occupancy fraction for the Mott liquid against existing numerical results yields excellent agreement. Presence of a Néel ordering symmetry-breaking perturbation in the RG leads to an antiferromagnetic spin-ordered charge insulating Mott state. Our results thus offer novel insights on a variety of aspects of the Mott–Hubbard problem, and can be extended to the doped system.
The Hubbard model in the strong-coupling regime is mainly studied by Kondo-lattice theory or 1/d expansion theory, with d the spatial dimensionality. In two dimensions and higher, the ground state within the Hilbert subspace with no order parameter is a normal Fermi liquid except for n=1 and U/W=+infinity, with n the electron density per unit cell, U the on-site repulsion, and W the bandwidth; the cooperation between the Kondo effect, which favors a local singlet on each unit cell, and a resonating-valence-bond effect, which favors a local singlet on each pair of nearest-neighbor unit cells, stabilizes the Fermi liquid, whose ground state is a singlet as a whole, in the strong-coupling regime. In the whole Hilbert space with no restriction, the normal Fermi liquid is unstable at least against a magnetic or superconducting state. This analysis confirms an early Fermi-liquid theory of high-temperature superconductivity, F. J. Ohkawa, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 26, L652 (1987). The ground state for n=1 and U/W=+infinity is a Mott insulator. Actual metal-insulator transitions cannot be explained within the Hubbard model. In order to explain them, the electron-phonon interaction, multi-band or multi-orbital effects, and effects of disorder should be considered beyond the Hubbard model. The crossover between local-moment magnetism and itinerant-electron magnetism corresponds to that between a localized spin and a normal Fermi liquid in the Kondo effect and it is simply a Mott metal-insulator crossover.
We supplement (and critically overview) the existing extensive analysis of antiferromagnetic solution for the Hubbard model with a detailed discussion of two specific features, namely (i) the evolution of the magnetic (Slater) gap (here renormalized by the electronic correlations) into the Mott-Hubbard or atomic gap, and (ii) a rather weak renormalization of the effective mass by the correlations in the half-filled-band case, which contrasts with that for the paramagnetic case. The mass remains strongly enhanced in the non-half-filled-band case. We also stress the difference between magnetic and non-magnetic contributions to the gap. These results are discussed within the slave boson approach in the saddle-point approximation, in which there appears a non-linear staggered molecular field due to the electronic correlations that leads to the appearance of the magnetic gap. They reproduce correctly the ground-state energy in the limit of strong correlations. A brief comparison with the solution in the limit of infinite dimensions and the corresponding situation in the doubly-degenerate-band case with one electron per atom is also made. 1 1
The authors have calculated the electronic self-energy of the two-dimensional Hubbard model as a function of frequency and momentum for various band fillings. They present this up to second order in the interaction parameter and also up to infinite order for ladder diagrams in the two-particle scattering channel. The authors have carried out direct k-space integrations using a triangle method. For a half-filled perfectly nested band, the imaginary part, lm Sigma (k f , omega ), has a linear- omega dependence for nested Fermi surfaces which is consistent with the marginal Fermi liquid phenomenology for high-T c superconductors. At, and near, half-filling there is a strong low-energy peak in lm Sigma (2) (k, omega ) when k is off the Fermi surface. The physical origin of this peak is discussed. The peak is enhanced in the ladder approximation. The corresponding structure in Re Sigma (2) (k, omega ) leads to multiple solutions of the Dyson equation for a wide range of values of the parameters. This leads to an appealing explanation of observed structure in some experimental angle-resolved photoemission spectra of high-T c materials. The authors also find anti-bound states split off from the band in the two-particle scattering ladders consistent with the suggestion of Anderson.