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Physical review. B, Condensed matter

Spectral function at finite doping in thet-Jmodel

Didier Poilblanc, Elbio R. Dagotto

Published Sep 1, 1990• 43 citations
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Abstract

We investigate the effect of doping in the hole spectral function by exact diagonalization of a 16-site cluster with two holes. It is shown that for more than one hole the spectral function differs qualitatively from the one in the single-hole limit. In particular, we find no evidence for the formation of a Fermi surface having hole ``pockets'' localized around (\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}\ensuremath{\pi}/2,\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}\ensuremath{\pi}/2) in momentum space. On the contrary, a large low-energy peak appears in the spectral function of the hole propagator at k=(\ensuremath{\pi},0) or (0,\ensuremath{\pi}) which is then the best candidate for the existence of those pockets. A (\ensuremath{\pi}/2,\ensuremath{\pi}/2) quasihole state is obtained as a small energy excitation of the two-hole system. We discuss some consequences for photoemission and optical-conductivity experiments in high-${\mathit{T}}_{\mathit{c}}$ materials at intermediate doping.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.42.4861

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The evolution of the Fermi surface upon hole doping is studied in the t-J model of correlated electrons by exact diagonalization of chains and planes. In one dimension at low hole doping, the momentum distribution function n(k) indicates the presence of pocketlike features at the (noninteracting) Fermi momentum, while increasing the density of holes a large Fermi surface is observed. Although the results in two dimensions are consistent with this picture, conclusive evidence for the existence of hole pockets (at intermediate doping levels) cannot be provided in the present study of 4\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}4 and \ensuremath{\surd}18 \ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{} \ensuremath{\surd}18 square lattices. In order to improve the resolution in momentum space, twisted boundary conditions are used for the two-dimensional clusters.
Literature addressing the existence of ``hole pockets'' in experiments for the high-Tc{\mathrm{T}}_{\mathrm{c}}Tc​ cuprates and in theoretical analysis of electronic models of correlated electrons is reviewed. It is argued that the issue is not conclusively resolved, both in theory and experiments. The apparently large Fermi surface observed in numerical studies of the doped Hubbard and t-J models suggests the presence of 1-x carriers (with x the concentration of holes). However, this is in contradiction with results obtained in similar calculations for the Drude weight which scales with x at low doping. To address such a paradox, dressed operators are here used. Their spectral decomposition A(k,\ensuremath{\omega}) is analyzed specially using the t-J model on ladders, but considering also chains and two-dimensional (2D) clusters. The results are contrasted against those obtained with the standard bare operators. It is concluded that substantial changes in the spectral weight can occur by replacing the bare hole creation operator by its dressed version. Apparently large Fermi surfaces can turn into small ones by working with quasiparticle (qp) operators that represent accurately the state of one hole. Thus, large Fermi surfaces in angle-resolved photoemission (ARPES), obtained by the sudden removal of an electron, may not be in contradiction with a visualization of the normal state of lightly doped antiferromagnets as composed of a gas of spin polarons with energies approximately obtained from the rigid band doping of the half-filled dispersion. The coexistence of a large Fermi surface in ARPES with, e.g., a holelike Hall coefficient seems possible in systems with strong correlations. In this paper the expression ``hole pocket'' is used as representing a large accumulation of spectral weight centered at k=(\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}\ensuremath{\pi}/2,\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}\ensuremath{\pi}/2) generated by antiferromagnetic correlations in 2D clusters, or in analogous positions for ladders and chains. The subtle issue of whether such hole pockets represent a true small Fermi surface or just large incoherent weight cannot be addressed with finite resolution techniques such as angle-resolved photoemission and numerical studies of electronic models. They only provide information about the location of the dominant weight in A(k,\ensuremath{\omega}). The ideas discussed here are very general and they can be applied to a variety of problems where quasiparticles are strongly dressed by low energy excitations of the medium in which they are immersed.
We present an exact diagonalization study of the doping dependence of the single-particle Green's function in 16-, 18-, and 20-site clusters of the t-J model. We find evidence for the validity of the rigid-band picture starting from the half-filled case: upon doping, the topmost states of the quasiparticle band observed in the photoemission spectrum at half-filling cross the chemical potential and reappear as the lowermost states of the inverse photoemission spectrum. Features in the inverse photoemission spectra, which are inconsistent with the rigid-band picture, are shown to originate from the nontrivial point-group symmetry of the ground state with two holes, which enforces different selection rules than at half-filling. Deviations from rigid-band behavior which lead to the formation of a large Fermi surface in the momentum distribution are found to occur at energies far from the chemical potential. A Luttinger Fermi surface and a nearest-neighbor hopping band do not exist.
The 2D t-J model is studied with exact-diagonalization techniques applied to clusters of sixteen to twenty sites with various hole doping levels. Already for two holes (\ensuremath{\ge}10% doping), a large electronic Fermi surface, compatible with Luttinger's theorem, is observed. The full single-particle Green's function is examined, and is shown to exhibit quasiparticlelike behavior, with dispersion consistent with the band structure of the noninteracting limit, and bandwidth scaling approximately as J for J smaller than t.
Clusters of the two-dimensional t-J model with two holes and up to 26 sites are diagonalized using a Lanczos algorithm. The behavior of the binding energy with system size suggests the existence of a finite critical value of J above which binding occurs in the bulk. Only the d-wave pair-field operator acting on the Heisenberg ground state has a finite overlap with the two-hole ground state for all the clusters considered. The related spectral function associated with the propagation of a d-wave (singlet) pair of holes in the antiferromagnetic background is calculated. The quasiparticle peak at the bottom of the spectrum as well as some structure appearing above the peak survive with increasing cluster size. Although no simple scaling law was found for the quasiparticle weight the data strongly suggest that this weight is finite in the bulk limit and is roughly proportional to the antiferromagnetic coupling J (for J1).
We examine the effects of electron-phonon interaction on the dynamics of the charge carriers doped in two-dimensional (2D) Heisenberg antiferromagnet. The t-J model Hamiltonian with a Fr\"ohlich term which couples the holes to a dispersionless (optical) phonon mode is considered for low doping concentration. The evolution of the spectral density function, the density of states, and the momentum distribution function of the holes with an increase of the hole-phonon coupling constant g is studied numerically. As the coupling to a phonon mode increases the quasiparticle spectral weight decreases and a ``phonon satellite'' feature close to the quasiparticle peak becomes more pronounced. Furthermore, strong electron-phonon coupling smears the multimagnon resonances (``string states'') in the incoherent part of the spectral function. The jump in the momentum distribution function at the Fermi surface is reduced without changing the hole pocket volume, thereby providing a numerical verification of Luttinger theorem for this strongly interacting system. The vertex corrections due to electron-phonon interaction are negligible in spite of the fact that the ratio of the phonon frequency to the effective bandwidth is not small. \textcopyright{} 1996 The American Physical Society.