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Physical review. B, Condensed matter

Higher-order correlation effects to the solution of the Hubbard model

Hong‐Gang Luo, Shun-Jin Wang

Published Feb 15, 2000• 11 citations
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Abstract

Using equations of motion of connected Green functions the Hubbard III approximation is reexamined. It is shown that two important higher-order correlation effects are neglected in the Hubbard III treatment. One is bandwidth correction, the other is band-shift correction. These two corrections make important effects to the metal-insulator transition and spontaneous ferromagnetism in the Hubbard model. Due to the bandwidth correction the critical value of ${U}_{c}$ in the metal-insulator transition decreases from $\sqrt{3}/2W(W$ represents Bloch bandwidth) in the Hubbard III approximation to $0.67W,$ which approaches significantly the critical value of $0.5W$ by the quantum Monte Carlo simulation, while the band-shift correction leads to a ferromagnetic solution missed in the Hubbard III approximation in the limit of $\stackrel{\ensuremath{\rightarrow}}{U}\ensuremath{\infty},$ which is in qualitative agreement with the conclusion that the Hubbard model can describe the ferromagnetism resulted from the spectral density method and the quantum Monte Carlo simulation. Our studies show that the higher-order correlation effects play an important role in describing the properties of the strongly correlated systems.

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10.1103/physrevb.61.5158

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We consider a Hubbard model with occupation dependent hopping integrals. Using the Hartree-Fock (H-F) approximation and the new Green function approach with inter-site kinetic averages included, we analyze the influence of the correlated hopping on ferromagnetic ordering. The influence of correlated hopping on the nonlocal quasiparticle energies and corresponding k-dependent spectral weights is included. In addition we obtain the shift of the spin bands which is a major factor in creating spontaneous ferromagnetism. At some parameters of the model the correlated hopping effect is strong enough to achieve saturated ferromagnetism. This state may be obtained at the asymmetric density of states (DOS) and the Fermi energy located in the region of large spectral weight near the band edge. The results are compared with DMFT-Quantum Monte Carlo calculations and with the Hubbard III approximation which includes the correlated hopping effect.
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We consider a Hubbard model (HM) with occupation dependent hopping integrals. Using the Hartree–Fock (H–F) approximation and the new Green's function approach with inter‐site kinetic averages included, we analyze the influence of the correlated hopping on ferromagnetic ordering. The influence of correlated hopping on the nonlocal quasiparticle energies and corresponding k‐dependent spectral weights is included. In addition, we obtain the shift of the spin bands, which is a major factor in creating spontaneous ferromagnetism. At some parameters of the model, the correlated hopping effect is strong enough to achieve saturated ferromagnetism. This state may be obtained at the asymmetric density of states (DOS) and the Fermi energy located in the region of large spectral weight near the band edge. The results are compared with DMFT‐Quantum Monte Carlo calculations and with the Hubbard III approximation, which includes the correlated hopping effect.
A new decoupling scheme is developed for the Hubbard model which provides a unified description of the spin-symmetric (paramagnetic metallic and insulating) phases as well as the broken-symmetry AFI phase. Independent of magnetic ordering, the scheme yields, in the lowest order, the correct strong-coupling bandwidth of order J (for the NN hopping model) and band gap of order U, a non-zero critical interaction strength (above which the band gap opens) only if same sublattice hopping (e.g., NNN hopping) is also present, and the correct integrated spectral weights (1/2 per spin) in each band for the half-filled model. The effects of charge and spin fluctuations, including spin twisting due to finite spin correlation length, are investigated with a static, random approximation. A self-consistent evaluation of the disorder-averaged self energy within the CPA is carried out numerically. Fluctuations activate the hopping term at first order resulting in band broadening, and the consequent decrease in the band gap with fluctuation strength is obtained for several U values in two and three dimensions. We find that the band gap shrinks to zero continuously, and subsequently the density of states N(0) between the bands grows continuously, leading to a continuous metal-insulator transition. For finite doping there is transfer of spectral weight between the Hubbard bands, and a qualitative change in the nature of the quasiparticle band dispersion, with an effective doping-induced hopping strength and bandwidth of order xt.
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 GGG and calculated iteratively in a perturbation scheme which takes the Hubbard I solution G0{G}_{0}G0​ as the zeroth-order Green's function. A zeroth-order approximation to the self-energy correction obtained by inserting G0{G}_{0}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.
Using strong-coupling perturbation theory for the Hubbard model, explicit expressions are obtained for the integrated weights, energy positions, and widths of the upper and lower Hubbard bands separately, both for the optical and photoemission spectrum. In one dimension all expressions can be explicitly evaluated using the large-U Bethe-ansatz wave function. The k\ensuremath{\rightarrow}-dependent moments for the one-particle spectrum are compared with the closely related two-pole ansatz. The strong momentum dependence of the spectra demonstrates the importance of the k\ensuremath{\rightarrow}-dependent correlation functions in the spectral moments, which are often neglected. In order to estimate corrections due to the neglect of higher-order terms (in t/U), all results are compared with numerical-diagonalization data for intermediate-U values. The sum-rule results show a rapid spectral-weight transfer from the high- to the low-energy regime upon doping, similar to what is observed experimentally in one-particle and optical spectra of Cu (high-Tc{\mathit{T}}_{\mathit{c}}Tc​) and Ni compounds. Such fast weight redistributions as a function of the carrier density are a natural consequence of the strong correlations in these materials. The redistribution of intensity in the optical conductivity is connected with the dilution of the spin system by the added holes. For the one-particle spectrum the decrease of weight in the upper Hubbard band away from half filling can be understood by state counting at U=\ensuremath{\infty}, and the effect is strongly enhanced for small doping by both the first- and second-order terms in t/U. Altogether, the one-particle and optical spectra show the importance of the three-site hopping term. Therefore the t-J model does not represent well the spectral properties of the Hubbard model at large U. The local spin order is essential and determines both the k\ensuremath{\rightarrow} dependence of the one-particle spectrum and the intensities in the optical spectrum.