We present an exactly solvable Hamiltonian which consists of nearest neighbor hopping and long-range interaction. The ground state and the thermodynamic quantities are analytically obtained in any dimensions. In a repulsive case, the Luttinger's theorem breaks down and the hypothesis of the adiabatic continuation no longer holds. At half filling, we show the existence of a metal-insulator transition as a function of the strength of the interaction. The zero energy excitation disappears at the critical value of the interaction when we increase the interaction. In this case, the system is an insulator. The charge compressibility behaves as κ≈|1-ρ| 1-2/ d near half filling in d dimensions where ρ is the density of electrons. At other fillings, there is always a zero energy excitation and the system is metallic. When the interaction is attractive, the ground state is composed of pairs of electrons with opposite spins. The low energy excitations, however, is not a particle-hole type of a non-interacting case but a pairwise excitation across the Fermi surface.
An exact-diagonalization technique on small clusters is used to study the ground states and single-particle excitations of the Hubbard model with on-site (U) and nearest-neighbor (V) Coulombic repulsive interactions. It is shown that the long-range charge-density-wave state realized in a half-filled two-dimensional square lattice for 4V\ensuremath{\gtrsim}U persists up to quarter filling, and that the doped carriers form a small Fermi surface that encloses an area corresponding to the number of doped carriers rather than the total number of electrons involved in the system. The present result offers a well-defined counterexample in the discussion of the Fermi-surface dimensions of strongly correlated electron systems, and may provide a complementary understanding of the large Fermi surface believed to exist in the ordinary Hubbard model.
Since the advent of high-
Tc cuprate superconductors in 1986, strongly correlated electron systems have attracted much attention. Since the cuprates are essentially two-dimensional, low-dimensional systems have moved into the focus of condensed-matter theory. From a theoretical point of view, one-dimensional systems are of particular interest because there are exact numerical and analytical methods which permit detailed studies and deep insights into the many-body problem. In the first part of this thesis, using the numerically exact methods Exact Diagonalization and the Density-Matrix Renormalization Group (DMRG), we investigate the properties of the Tomonaga–Luttinger liquid which is the generic metallic state of matter in one dimension. In particular, we concentrate on the investigation of the so-called Tomonaga–Luttinger liquid parameter which determines the critical exponent
α for the density of states near the Fermi energy. Experimental results for some quasi one-dimensional materials report
α≳1, which would imply
Kρ≲0.17, a value which cannot be reconciled with the bare Hubbard model where
KρH≥0.5, i.e.,
αH≲1/8. We develop new accurate numerical methods to obtain
Kρ and investigate how to obtain such small values for
Kρ for slightly doped charge-density-wave insulators. In the second part of this thesis, using the Thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz (TBA) as exact analytical method, we investigate the one-dimensional Hubbard model in the spindisordered regime, which is characterized by the temperature being much larger than the magnetic energy scale but small compared to the Mott–Hubbard gap. Our study is motivated by the controversy about the Mott–Hubbard insulator in infinite dimensions whose ground state is also spin-disordered. In this system the determination of the precise value of the critical interaction strength Uc where the Mott–Hubbard gap closes is still unsolved. Therefore, we provide an example of a Hubbard-type model with a disordered spin background which can be solved exactly. The thermodynamics of our model can be understood in terms of gapped charged excitations with an effective dispersion which are decoupled form the spin degrees of freedom; the latter contribute only entropically. An interpretation of this regime in terms of a putative interacting-electron system at zero temperature leads to a metal-insulator transition at a finite interaction strength above which the gap opens linearly. Our exact results indicate that the strong-coupling expansion of the ground-state energy cannot be used to locate
Uc. However, the strong-coupling expansion of the gap permits a reliable extrapolation of the critical interaction strength.
We discuss the transition from a metal to charge- or spin-insulating phases characterized by the opening of a gap in the charge- or spin-excitation spectra, respectively. These transitions are addressed within the context of two exactly solvable Hubbard and t-J chains with long-range, 1/r hopping. We discuss the specific heat, compressibility, and magnetic susceptibility of these models as a function of temperature, the band filling, and the interaction strength. We then use conformal-field-theory techniques to extract ground-state correlation functions. Finally, by employing the g-ology analysis we show that the charge-insulator transition is accompanied by an infinite discontinuity in the Drude weight of the electrical conductivity. While the magnetic properties of these models reflect the genuine features of strongly correlated electron systems, the charge-transport properties, especially near the Mott-Hubbard transition, display a nongeneric behavior.
A brief introduction to the bosonization method for interacting one-dimensional fermion systems is given. Using these results, the long-distance decay of correlation functions in the one-dimensional Hubbard model is determined exactly for arbitrary bandfilling and correlation strength, using the exact solution of Lieb and Wu. For infinite U the results are generalized to the case of nonzero nearest-neighbour interaction. The behaviour of thermodynamic quantities, of the frequency-dependent conductivity, and of the thermopower is also discussed, in particular in the proximity of the metal-insulator transitions occurring for half- and quarter-filling. The one-dimensional Luttinger liquid is shown to be unstable in the presence of interchain hopping. The results for the metal-insulator transition are compared with other scenarios developed in higher dimensions.
A brief introduction to the bosonization method for interacting one-dimensional fermion systems is given. Using these results, the long-distance decay of correlation functions in the one-dimensional Hubbard model is determined exactly for arbitrary bandfilling and correlation strength, using the exact solution of Lieb and Wu. For infinite U the results are generalized to the case of nonzero nearest-neighbour interaction. The behaviour of thermodynamic quantities, of the frequency-dependent conductivity, and of the thermopower is also discussed, in particular in the proximity of the metal-insulator transitions occurring for half- and quarter-filling. The one-dimensional Luttinger liquid is shown to be unstable in the presence of interchain hopping. The results for the metal-insulator transition are compared with other scenarios developed in higher dimensions.
One parametric one-dimensional spinless fermion model is formulated and solved exactly by the Bethe ansatz method. The Hamiltonian contains the kinetic terms describing nearest-neighbor hopping of electrons with different hopping integrals for many-particle configurations. The Luttinger liquid behavior is studied for the case repulsion effective interaction. The ground-state energy, the critical exponent, describing the asymptotic behavior of the density-density correlation function at long distances, the Fermi velocity have been calculated numerically for an arbitrary density of electrons. The model displays the condensation of particles in the case of the attractive interaction.