A new solution for the narrow band Hubbard model is developed and the results for the one particle Green functions are presented. The spectral density has poles and resonance terms, and is exact for zero bandwidth. The antiferromagnetic state and transition temperature are studied.
The connection between a solution of the Hubbard Hamiltonian obtained by Esterling and Lange and the low-density solution is discussed. It is shown that their solution agrees to first order in the bandwidth with the exact solution for the two-electron N-site case. However, even this correct first-order expansion fails to adequately account for the low-frequency behavior of the Green's function and related quantities.
A solution to the Hubbard model is presented which invokes the single assumption that the low-energy peak in the spectral weight function can be well approximated by a function which duplicates its zeroth, first, and second moments to a given order in the bandwidth. The solution takes advantage of the rigorous moment relations of Harris and Lange. A simple, exact, and unambiguous technique to evaluate the correlation functions, required for the moment relations, in the atomic limit is developed. These functions are used to calculate the moments which in turn generate a spectral weight function with no restriction on the electron density. The ground-state energy for the paramagnetic and ferromagnetic configurations are calculated and compared. The model is found to be ferromagnetic for moderate densities.
We calculate the single-particle spectral function for the Hubbard model within the framework of a projection technique equivalent to the two-pole approximation. We show that the two-pole approximation can be well understood as an average characterization of the upper and the lower Hubbard bands, rather than describing a dispersive quasiparticle. By comparing with numerical spectra of finite Hubbard rings and of a 4\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}4 cluster [P. W. Leung et al., Phys. Rev. B 46, 11 779 (1992)], we show that the present approximation is capable of reproducing essential properties of the single-particle spectral function. In particular, the two-pole spectrum is characterized by a direct gap, in agreement with the exact spectrum. We emphasize the role of local antiferromagnetic correlations.
In order to study the properties of the Hubbard model for narrow bands, a systematic treatment of the equations of motion of the Green's functions appropriate to that model has been developed. Higher-order Green's functions are reduced to functional derivatives of the basic Green's function G and calculated iteratively in a perturbation scheme which takes the Hubbard I solution G0 as the zeroth-order Green's function. A zeroth-order approximation to the self-energy correction obtained by inserting G0 into the functional derivatives is compared with various existing solutions. The perturbation scheme is further extended to an infinite order and the self-energy is calculated exactly up to terms linear in the hopping motion $\ensuremath{\epsilon}$, a result which has not been obtained previously. The self-energy correction in this final result is drastically different from the zeroth-order solution, demonstrating the importance of the infinite-order iterative procedure. Finally, the electron correlations included in the final result are discussed in terms of diagrams.