The real-space renormalization-group technique is applied to the Hubbard model on a linear chain with a half-filled band; a recently proposed modified scheme is used for the renormalization of the parameters. The result for the ground-state energy is quite improved with respect to the earlier results of the existing scheme. Both the energy and its derivative with respect to the on-site repulsion term agree reasonably well with the exact solution. However, it is indicated that the calculation of the correlation function and energy gap requires further refinement of this scheme.
The one-dimensional Hubbard model is studied using a real-space renormalisation-group block method previously applied to other quantum systems. The authors primarily consider the half-filled band for which the ground state is found to be insulating for all non-zero values of the Hubbard interaction, in agreement with the exact solution. When the method is applied to first order in perturbation, they find that the insulating gap for small U/t behaves like exp (-At 2 /U 2 ) where U is the Hubbard interaction and t is the nearest-neighbour transfer integral. When the method is extended to second order, the authors find that for small U/t the gap behaves like (U/t) alpha with alpha approximately=11.2. The exact asymptotic behaviour of the gap ( approximately (U/t) 1/2 exp(-At/U)) is not recovered, but a good semiquantative agreement with the exact solution is obtained for both the gap and the ground state energy. Extensions to non-half-filled bands and to higher dimensions are discussed. The validity of the renormalisation group method is also discussed.
We have studied the Hubbard model with bond-charge interaction on a triangular lattice for a half-filled band. At the point of particle-hole symmetry the model could be analysed in detail in two opposite regimes of the parameter space. Using a real-space renormalization group (RG) we calculate the ground-state energy and the local moment over the whole parameter space. The RG results obey the exact results in the respective limits. In the intermediate region of the parameter space, the RG results clearly show the effects of the non-bipartite geometry of the lattice as well as the absence of symmetry in the reversal of the sign of the hopping matrix element.
The one-band two-dimensional Hubbard Hamiltonian is analyzed using a real-space renormalization-group block method. The renormalization-group method, previously applied to the one-dimensional case has been extended to two dimensions. It is also shown how to avoid the proliferation of new terms during the process if the shape of the blocks and the symmetries of the kept states are chosen conveniently. We characterize the ground state by its energy per site, the gap of charge excitations, the double occupancy, and the effective hopping. The system shows an insulating behavior in the case of half filling for all nonzero interaction parameter, U, if the hopping is isotropic (
ty=
tx); that is to say, the gap opens for all positive U, as in the one-dimensional case. If the hopping anisotropy, \ensuremath{\alpha}=
ty/
tx, is different from the unity and zero the ground state is a conductor up to a critical value (U/t
)c1, which depends on \ensuremath{\alpha}. We have analyzed in the same way another filling, n=7/9. The system behaves as a conductor, paramagnetic up to a value (U/t
)c2\ensuremath{\sim}2 and weakly ferromagnetic for higher values of U.