Physical Review Letters
Electronic Properties of the Insulating Half-Filled Hubbard Model
Niyazi Bulut, Douglas J. Scalapino, Steven R. White
Abstract
Monte Carlo results for the frequency dependent conductivity ${\ensuremath{\sigma}}_{1}(\ensuremath{\omega})$, the angular resolved photoemission spectral weight $A(\mathbf{p},\ensuremath{\omega})$, and the electron momentum distribution $〈{n}_{\mathbf{p}}〉$ are calculated for a half-filled Hubbard model with the on-site Coulomb interaction $U$ equal to the bandwidth $8t$. We find that even for $U=8t$, a spin-density-wave approximation provides a sensible description of this data and hence a useful picture of the electronic degrees of freedom in the insulating state.