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International Journal of Modern Physics B

SINGLE SPIN FLIP IN THE INFINITE U HUBBARD MODEL: HUBBARD OPERATORS, THREE-BODY FADEEV EQUATIONS AND GUTZWILLER WAVE FUNCTIONS

Andrei E. Ruckenstein, Stefan Schmitt-Rink

Published Dec 1, 1989• 27 citations
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Abstract

We investigate a recently proposed many-body theory for composite (Hubbard) operators (A.E. Ruckenstein and S. Schmitt-Rink, Phys. Rev. B38, 7188 (1988)) in the context of the problem of a single spin flip in the saturated ferromagnetic state of the infinite U Hubbard model. We prove that the suitably defined strong coupling Hartree-Fock mean field theory leads to results identical to those obtained from the Gutzwiller wave function through exact evaluation of the kinetic energy. Most interestingly, we also show how exactly the same results can be obtained starting from the weak coupling limit by solving analytically the three-body t-matrix (Fadeev) equations in the infinite U limit. This work also sheds light on the physical content of slave boson approximations to which our approach was previously shown to be equivalent in the limit of large spin or orbital degeneracy. For the single spin flip problem we compare our results with those obtained by Bethe-Goldstone perturbation theory, Bethe Ansatz in one dimension, and exact diagonalization studies.

DOI
10.1142/s0217979289001160

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We construct a new U(1) slave-spin representation for the single-band Hubbard model in the large-U limit. The mean-field theory in this representation is more amenable to describe both the spin-charge-separation physics of the Mott insulator at half-filling and the strange metal behavior at finite doping. By employing a dynamical Green’s function theory for slave spins, we calculate the single-particle spectral function of electrons. The result is comparable to that in dynamical mean field theories. We then formulate a dynamical t/U expansion for the doped Hubbard model that reproduces the mean-field results at the lowest order of expansion. To the next order of expansion, it naturally yields an effective low-energy theory of a t–J model for spinons self-consistently coupled to an XXZ model for the slave spins. We show that the superexchange J is renormalized by doping, in agreement with the Gutzwiller approximation. Surprisingly, we find a new ferromagnetic channel of exchange interactions which survives in the infinite U limit, as a manifestation of the Nagaoka ferromagnetism.