The density-matrix renormalization-group method is applied to the one-dimensional Kondo-lattice model with the Coulomb interaction between the conduction electrons. The spin and charge gaps are calculated as a function of the exchange constant
J and the Coulomb interaction
Uc. It is shown that both the spin and charge gaps increase with increasing
J and
Uc. The spin gap vanishes in the limit of $J\ensuremath{\rightarrow}0$ for any
Uc with an exponential form, ${\ensuremath{\Delta}}_{s}\ensuremath{\propto}\mathrm{exp}[\ensuremath{-}\frac{1}{\ensuremath{\alpha}({U}_{c})J\ensuremath{\rho}}]$. The exponent, $\ensuremath{\alpha}({U}_{c})$, is determined as a function of
Uc. The charge gap is generally much larger than the spin gap. In the limit of $J\ensuremath{\rightarrow}0$, the charge gap vanishes as ${\ensuremath{\Delta}}_{c}=\frac{1}{2}J$ for
Uc=0 but for a finite
Uc it tends to a finite value, which is the charge gap of the Hubbard model.
An effective, low temperature, classical model for spin transport in the one-dimensional, gapped, quantum
O(3) nonlinear $\ensuremath{\sigma}$ model is developed. Its correlators are obtained by a mapping to a model solved earlier by Jepsen. We obtain universal functions for the ballistic-to-diffusive crossover and the value of the spin diffusion constant, and these are claimed to be exact at low temperatures. Implications for experiments on one-dimensional insulators with a spin gap are noted.
We study the spin-gap phase in the one-dimensional
t-
J model, assuming that it is caused by the backward scattering process. Based on the renormalization group analysis and symmetry, we can determine the transition point between the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid and the spin-gap phases, by the level crossing of the singlet and the triplet excitations. In contrast to the previous works, the obtained spin-gap region is unexpectedly large. We also determine that the universality class of the transition belongs to the
k=1 SU(2) Wess-Zumino-Witten model.