We find eigenstates for a 1/r Hubbard model in terms of the \ensuremath{\eta} pairing mechanism and prove that the model exhibits SO(4) symmetry in its modified form. It turns out that in the presence of a constant magnetic field the \ensuremath{\eta} states share Berry's phase in the adiabatic limit.
The existence of $\ensuremath{\eta}$-pairing eigenstates in the fermionic Hubbard model is fundamentally rooted in the $\ensuremath{\eta}$-pairing symmetry, which may hold for systems with nonuniform Hubbard interaction U. In this work, we present a generalized Hubbard model containing a variety of pseudospin terms that break the SO4 symmetry but retain the $\ensuremath{\eta}$-pairing symmetry. This allows us to construct a variety of correlated systems possessing $\ensuremath{\eta}$-pairing eigenstates. We exemplify our findings by considering a modified Hubbard model associated with alternative magnetic fields and on-site repulsion. We find that the same quasi-$\ensuremath{\eta}$-pairing eigenstate exhibits two distinct dynamic behaviors in the two models. Numerical results of the time evolution driven by several typical Hamiltonians accord with the analytic predictions and provide a method for the control of an $\ensuremath{\eta}$-pairing wave packet with the aid of a time-dependent Hamiltonian.
Yang's η pairing operator is generalized to explore off-diagonal long-range order in the Hubbard bilayer with an arbitrary chemical potential. With this operator and a constraint condition on annihilation and creation operators, we construct explicitly eigenstates which possess simultaneously three kinds of off-diagonal long-range order, i.e., the intralayer one and the interlayer one for on-site pairing, and that for interlayer nearest-neighbor pairing. As in the simple Hubbard model there is also an SO(4) symmetry, with the generators properly defined. A sufficient condition leads to at least one of the above three kinds of off-diagonal long-range order. A constraint relation among different kinds of off-diagonal long-range order is also given. There exists a triplet of collective modes if the U(1) symmetry of a subgroup is spontaneously broken.
We show how, upon heating the spin degrees of freedom of the Hubbard model to infinite temperature, the symmetries of the system allow the creation of steady states with long-range correlations between η pairs. We induce this heating with either dissipation or periodic driving and evolve the system towards a nonequilibrium steady state, a process which melts all spin order in the system. The steady state is identical in both cases and displays distance-invariant off-diagonal η correlations. These correlations were first recognized in the superconducting eigenstates described in Yang's seminal Letter [Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2144 (1989)PRLTAO0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.63.2144], which are a subset of our steady states. We show that our results are a consequence of symmetry properties and entirely independent of the microscopic details of the model and the heating mechanism.