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Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

The excitation spectrum of the orbitally degenerate Hubbard model in one dimension: absence of Cooper pairing

Kong-Ju-Bock Lee, P. Schlottmann

Published Dec 18, 1989• 5 citations
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Abstract

The degenerate Hubbard chain with N internal degrees of freedom is integrable if site occupations of more than two electrons are excluded. If on average there is exactly one electron per site, the system is a Mott-Hubbard insulator. The authors discuss the elemental charge and spin excitations, the effects of crystalline fields quenching the orbital degrees of freedom, and the implications of hole states for superconductivity.

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10.1088/0953-8984/1/50/020

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We consider the SU(N) generalization of the one-dimensional Hubbard model with arbitrary degeneracy N (spin and orbital degrees of freedom). This model is integrable and has several unusual properties at low temperatures. The Bethe-Ansatz equations at T=0 are analyzed in the thermodynamic limit in the absence of external fields. In the continuum limit, the effective interaction between the charge degrees of freedom corresponds to a potential of the form [sinh(ax)${]}^{\mathrm{\ensuremath{-}}2}$, where x is the distance between the particles involved and a is an inverse length scale. In the limit N\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\ensuremath{\infty} and in the continuum limit, the charges reduce to a Bose gas interacting via a \ensuremath{\delta}-function potential. We further address here the properties of the charge degrees of freedom for a band filling close to one electron per site. The charge excitations obey Fermi statistics. We find a Mott metal-insulator transition at a critical value Uc{\mathit{U}}_{\mathit{c}}Uc​ of the Coulomb repulsion. Uc{\mathit{U}}_{\mathit{c}}Uc​ depends on N (Uc{\mathit{U}}_{\mathit{c}}Uc​=0 for N=2). A qualitative change in the charge-rapidity distribution is found at Uc{\mathit{U}}_{\mathit{c}}Uc​. The Fermi velocity is finite for UUc{\mathit{U}}_{\mathit{c}}Uc​, diverges as U\ensuremath{\rightarrow}Uc{\mathit{U}}_{\mathit{c}}Uc​, and vanishes for U>Uc{\mathit{U}}_{\mathit{c}}Uc​.
We consider a one-dimensional two-band model of electrons on a lattice with equal nearest-neighbour hopping, an interband splitting Delta and a Hubbard-like repulsion U. The model is defined via the SU(4) generalization of Lieb and Wu's Bethe ansatz solution of the one-dimensional Hubbard model. At T=0 the model has a Mott metal-insulator transition at a critical value U c ( Delta ) for a band filling of exactly one electron per site. U c decreases with Delta , being zero if the excited-electron band is empty, and U c =2.981 when the bands are degenerate. We discuss the ground-state properties, the spectrum of elemental excitations, the specific heat and the magnetic susceptibility, in both the metallic and insulating phases, as a function of the crystal-field splitting for exactly one electron per site. There are four branches of elemental excitations: (i) charge excitations, (ii) crystalline-field excitations and (iii) two branches of spin waves. The Fermi velocity is finite in the metallic phase, diverges as the metal-insulator transition is approached from the metallic side and vanishes for the insulator. Each band contributes to the susceptibility with a term that is inversely proportional to the spin-wave velocity for that band. The low-temperature specific heat is proportional to T and to the sum of the inverses of the velocities of the four branches.
The thermodynamic Bethe-ansatz equations for the one-dimensional Hubbard model with attractive on-site interaction of the electrons are solved numerically at low temperatures. At low temperatures the dominant states consist of spin-paired electrons (Cooper-pair--like) and excitations of such pairs (without breaking up the singlet bound states). A critical field (energy required to depair a Cooper pair) is obtained at T=0 (note that the superconducting Tc{T}_{c}Tc​=0), which disappears for T\ensuremath{\ne}0. The specific heat is linear in temperature, and the dependence of the coefficient \ensuremath{\gamma} on band filling and magnetic field is discussed. The excitation spectrum shows some analogies with that of resonant valence bonds in two dimensions.
The low-temperature thermodynamics of the one-dimensional Hubbard model with attractive on-site interaction of the electrons is discussed within the framework of the Bethe ansatz for the wave function. At low T the dominant states consist of spin-paired electrons (Cooper-pair-like) and excitations of such pairs (without breaking up the singlet bound states). A critical field Hc (energy required to depair a Cooper pair) is obtained at T=0 (note that the superconducting Tc =0), which disappears for T≠0. There is no magnetic response at T=0 for H<Hc . The one-electron correlation function falls off exponentially with distance, while the singlet pair–singlet pair correlation decreases with a power law. The specific heat is linear in temperature, which is possibly a consequence of the dimension. The elementary excitations of the system are discussed. The excitation spectrum shows some analogies to that of resonant valence bonds in two dimensions.
In this paper the spin configurations of the ground state and one- and two-electron excited states of the Hubbard model on the square lattice are studied. We profit from a general rotated-electron description, which is consistent with the model global SO(3)×SO(3)×U(1)SO(3)\times SO(3)\times U(1)SO(3)×SO(3)×U(1) symmetry. For rotated electrons, doubly and single occupancy are good quantum numbers for on-site repulsion U>0U>0U>0. The above states are within that description generated by occupancy configurations of charge ccc fermions and spin-singlet two-spinon s1s1s1 bond particles. Those describe the charge and spin degrees of freedom, respectively, of the rotated electrons that singly occupy sites. While the ccc fermions have no internal structure, that of the spin-neutral s1s1s1 bond-particle occupancy configurations is here described in terms of spinon occupancies of a well-defined effective spin lattice. In reference \cite{companion} it is confirmed that our results contribute to the further understanding of the role of electronic correlations in the spin spectrum of the parent compound La2_22​CuO4_44​. They are also of interest for studies of ultra-cold fermionic atoms on an optical lattice.