We study the conditions under which, using a canonical transformation, the phases sought after for the repulsive Hubbard model, namely, a Mott insulator in the paramagnetic and antiferromagnetic phases, and a putative
d-wave superfluid can be deduced from observations in an optical lattice loaded with a spin-imbalanced ultracold Fermi gas with attractive interactions, thus realizing the attractive Hubbard model. We argue that the Mott insulator and antiferromagnetic phase of the repulsive Hubbard model are easier to observe in the attractive Hubbard mode as a band insulator of Cooper pairs and superfluid phase, respectively. The putative
d-wave superfluid phase of the repulsive Hubbard model doped away from half filling is related to a
d-wave antiferromagnetic phase for the attractive Hubbard model. We discuss the advantages of this approach to ``quantum simulate'' the Hubbard model in an optical lattice over the simulation of the doped Hubbard model in the repulsive regime. We also point out a number of technical difficulties of the proposed approach and, in some cases, suggest possible solutions.
We present an analytic solution of the self consistent random phase approximation equations for the half-filled Hubbard model, in the strong coupling limit. In the half-filled limit the Hubbard model shows antiferromagnetic ordering. The self energy is calculated by considering processes whereby the electrons emit and absorb low frequency spin waves, which are the Goldstone modes of the broken symmetry phase. We examine the electronic spectrum, which is dominated by the broad incoherent portions of the spectrum associated with the upper and lower Hubbard bands. The quasi-particle spectrum has a divergent wave function renormalization, indicating a divergent renormalization of the quasi-particle mass and zero quasi-particle weight, as in a non-Fermi liquid. The self consistency equation determined from the Goldstone modes in the susceptibility shows that the antiferromagnetism is prohibited in one and two dimensions but not in three. The magnetic ordering temperature is determined by dimensionality and the magnitude of the Anderson kinetic exchange of the effective Heisenberg Hamiltonian.
We carry out a systematic study of collective spin and charge excitations for the canonical single-band Hubbard, t–J–U, and t–J models of high-temperature copper-oxide superconductors, both on electron- and hole-doped side of the phase diagram. A~recently developed variational wave function approach, combined with the expansion in the inverse number of fermionic flavors, is employed. All three models exhibit a substantial electron–hole asymmetry of magnetic excitations, with a robust paramagnon emerging for hole-doping, in agreement with available resonant inelastic X-ray scattering data for the cuprates. The t–J model yields additional high-energy peak in the magnetic spectrum that is not unambiguously identified in spectroscopy. For all considered Hamiltonians, the dynamical charge susceptibility contains a coherent mode for both hole- and electron doping, with overall bandwidth renormalization controlled by the on-site Coulomb repulsion. Away from the strong-coupling limit, the antiferromagnetic ordering tendency is more pronounced on the electron-doped side of the phase diagram.