Numerical results obtained from Monte Carlo simulation in the ground state and at finite temperatures as well as the exact diagonalization and the transfer matrix method are reported. Efficiency of the Monte Carlo method in the ground state is examined. Spin, charge and superconducting correlations are investigated for the Hubbard and the t - J model in one and two dimensions. The momentum distribution in the one-dimensional Hubbard model shows fermi-liquid-like behavior at least in two orders of magnitude smaller energy scale than the band width. The short-range incommensurate spin correlation is observed and analyzed in the doped Hubbard and the t - J model both in one and two dimensions. In the ground state, the superconducting correlation shows the absence of system size dependence in two dimensions at the filling smaller than 0.8 and in one dimension at any filling. The binding energy of two fermions and the spin and charge distortion around an itinerant fermion are also discussed in the t - J and the coupled spin-fermion model.
In this paper, a detailed study of the dynamics of the behavior of two electrons in two dimensions is carried out. Over the years, the Hubbard model has been heavily used as one of the standard models for the study of strongly correlated electron systems. Despite this, the mechanism of interaction of these electrons in two- dimensional systems is yet to be properly understood. Based on this clarity problem, a modification of the standard Lanczos algorithm which is slightly different, simpler and more analytical than that presented by Dagotto in his review paper is used in a concerted attempt to produce relevant results for the correlated ground state energies and wave functions and the behavior of the interacting pairs is explained with the aid of the well known single band Hubbard model. Hence this study has been able to develop, stabilize and utilize a simplified modification of the standard Lanczos technique. From results obtained, for large and positive values of u, interaction is repulsive while it is attractive for negative values of u. The wave function can be readily obtained at the end of each step of iteration.
We determine the symmetry of Cooper pairs, on the basis of the perturbation theory in terms of the Coulomb interaction U , for the two-dimensional Hubbard model on the square lattice. The phase diagram is investigated in detail. The Hubbard model for small U is mapped on to an effective Hamiltonian with the attractive interaction using the canonical transformation: H eff = e S H e − S . The gap equation of the weak coupling formulation is solved without numerical ambiguity to determine the symmetry of Cooper pairs. The superconducting gap crucially depends on the position of the van Hove singularity. We show the phase diagram in the plane of the electron filling n e and the next nearest-neighbor transfer t '. The d-wave pairing is dominant for the square lattice in a wide range of n e and t '. The d-wave pairing is also stable for the square lattice with anisotropic t '. The three-band d–p model is also investigated, for which the d-wave pairing is stable in a wide range of n e and t pp (the transfer between neighboring oxygen atoms). In the weak coupling analysis, the second-neighbor transfer parameter - t ' could not be so large so that the optimum doping rate is in the range of 0.8 < n e < 0.85.
A model to describe electronic correlations in energy bands is considered. The model is a generalization of the conventional Hubbard model that allows for the fact that the wave function for two electrons occupying the same Wannier orbital is different from the product of single-electron wave functions. We diagonalize the Hamiltonian exactly on a four-site cluster and study its properties as a function of band filling. The quasiparticle weight is found to decrease and the quasiparticle effective mass to increase as the electronic band filling increases, and spectral weight in one- and two-particle spectral functions is transferred from low to high frequencies as the band filling increases. Quasiparticles at the Fermi energy are found to be more ``dressed'' when the Fermi level is in the upper half of the band (hole carriers) than when it is in the lower half of the band (electron carriers). The effective interaction between carriers is found to be strongly dependent on band filling becoming less repulsive as the band filling increases and attractive near the top of the band in certain parameter ranges. The effective interaction is most attractive when the single-hole carriers are most heavily dressed, and in the parameter regime where the effective interaction is attractive, hole carriers are found to ``undress,'' hence become more like electrons, when they pair. It is proposed that these are generic properties of electronic energy bands in solids that reflect a fundamental electron-hole asymmetry of condensed matter. The relation of these results to the understanding of superconductivity in solids is discussed.
Abstract One of the important steps leading to the successful formulation of the microscopic theory of superconductivity was the model calculation performed by Cooper (1956) which showed that two electrons, interacting above a filled Fermi sea, had a bound state in the presence of an arbitrarily weak attractive interaction. This chapter first examines Cooper’s calculation. The success of the Cooper model calculation in producing a bound state, with its implication that a proper many-body theory would contain a gap in the excitation spectrum, strongly suggests that the ground state wave function should be constructed from pairs of electrons. However, it is difficult to perform calculations using the many-body pair wave function from Cooper’s model. The chapter then introduces the wave function proposed by Bardeen, Cooper, and Schrieffer (BCS) as an alternative.
We present a bond-operator theory (BOT) for analytical consideration of the
t-
J model and its extensions with longer-rage hopping terms. This technique is based on previously suggested representation of electron operators via localized spins 1/2 and spinless Fermi-operators of mobile holons which requires no constraint between them. We introduce a representation of operators of spins, holons, and electrons in (extended) unit cell containing several lattice sites via a zoo of Bose- and Fermi-operators acting in the Hilbert space of all quantum states of the whole unit cell. BOT provides a regular expansion of physical quantities in powers of
1/n using conventional diagrammatic technique, where
n≥1 is the maximum number of introduced quasiparticles (bosons and fermions) which can occupy a unit cell. The suggested representation reproduces commutation algebra of all operators at any
n>0 and allows to consider both magnetically ordered and disordered phases. Some elementary excitations described in the BOT by separate bosons or fermions appear in common approaches as bound states of conventional quasiparticles. In particular, there are two-hole bound states (Cooper pairs of two holes) which are described within the BOT by separate bosons. We discuss in detail properties of the
t-
J model on the square lattice with no more than two holes (polarons). Although the expansion parameter
1/n is not small in the physically meaningful case of
n=1, we obtain a good quantitative agreement with previous numerical findings at
n=1 even in the first order in
1/n after taking into account a few simple diagrams. Self-consistent calculations in the first order in
1/n bring our results to a very good quantitative agreement with previous numerical findings of the ground state energy, staggered magnetization, and spectra of magnons, polarons, and lowest-energy two-hole bound states.