Mott-Hubbard metal-insulator transition in Hubbard models at high total spin
Q. P. Li, Robert Joynt
We study the metal-insulator transition and magnetic ordering in the Hubbard model using the particle-hole mapping. This representation facilitates the exact solution of the half-filled band in the limit of high spin. We find that the two-dimensional Hubbard model has a charge-excitation gap at half filling for any finite U in the high-spin region on both the bipartite square lattice and the nonbipartite triangular lattice. We show, using the Kohn insulator criteria, that this bound-state phase is indeed insulating. Using the information from the single-pair solution, we construct a generalized BCS type of many-body wave function and derive the gap equation for lower-spin states. We find that in some cases, the system goes through a phase transition to become a metal as the total spin ${\mathit{S}}_{\mathit{z}}$ is lowered.
Physical review. B, Condensed matter•Feb 15, 1993•16 citations