Physical review. B, Condensed matter
Higher-order correlation effects to the solution of the Hubbard model
Hong‐Gang Luo, Shun-Jin Wang
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.