Elementary excitations in the one-dimensional Hubbard model with boundary fields are discussed. Boundary scattering matrices for the excitations of the charge and spin sectors are evaluated. Both the repulsive and the attractive Hubbard models at half-filling and without a magnetic field are studied.
We consider the one-dimensional Hubbard model at half filling. We show that both excitation spectrum and S matrix are determined by the SO(4) symmetry of the model. The complete set of excitations is given by the scattering states of four elementary excitations, which form the fundamental representation of SU(2)\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}SU(2). We evaluate the exact S matrix, which satisfies the Yang-Baxter relation. The results for the repulsive and attractive Hubbard model are related by an interchange of spin and charge degrees of freedom.
The exact phase diagrams of the one-dimensional Hubbard model, both attractive and repulsive, in the presence of an arbitrary magnetic field h for various electron concentrations n and on-site interaction strengths U <0 or U >0 are calculated and investigated. The exact ground-state properties, namely, the ground-state energy, the average spin (magnetization), the concentration of the doubly occupied sites, the kinetic energy, the chemical potential, the spin (magnetic) susceptibility and the charge compressibility, are calculated and examined over a wide range of interaction strengths U for various h and n . It is found that the spin susceptibility at half-filling is non-analytic and changes discontinuously as U →0. The exact theory shows the absence of a charge energy gap in the U ⩽0 region for all n and provides, for the chemical potential, the rigorous upper and lower bounds for half-filled and empty bands respectively. The analytical results derived for the weak-coupling limit and asymptotic expansions for strong coupling are in full agreement with the numerical calculations.