The slave-boson mean-field method is used to study the two-dimensional Hubbard model. A magnetic phase diagram allowing for paramagnetism, weak and strong ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism is constructed and compared to the corresponding phase diagram using the Hartree-Fock approximation (HFA). Magnetically ordered regions are reduced by a factor of about three along both the t/U and density axes compared to the HFA. Using the spin-rotation-invariant formulation of the slave-boson method the helicity modulus is computed and for half filling is found practically to coincide with that found using variational Monte Carlo calculations with the Gutzwiller wave function. Off half filling the results can be used to compare with quantum Monte Carlo calculations of the effective hopping parameter. Contrary to the case of half filling, the slave-boson approach is seen to greatly improve the results of the HFA when off half filling.
We investigate the metal-insulator transition in the half-filled Hubbard model on the two-dimensional triangular lattice using both the Kotliar-Ruckenstein slave-boson technique and an exact numerical diagonalization of finite clusters. Contrary to the case of a square lattice, where a perfect nesting of the Fermi surface leads to a metal-insulator transition at arbitrarily small values of U, always accompanied by antiferromagnetic ordering, on a triangular lattice, due to the lack of perfect nesting, the transition takes place at a finite value of U, and frustration induces a nontrivial competition among different magnetic phases. Indeed, within the mean-field approximation in the slave-boson approach, as the interaction grows the paramagnetic metal turns into a metallic phase with incommensurate spiral ordering. Increasing the interaction further, a linear spin-density wave is stabilized, and finally for strong coupling the latter phase undergoes a first-order transition toward an antiferromagnetic insulator. No trace of the intermediate phases is seen in the exact diagonalization results, indicating a transition between a paramagnetic metal and an antiferromagnetic insulator.
The cluster slave-spin method is employed to investigate systematically the ground state properties of the Hubbard model on a square lattice with doping $\ensuremath{\delta}$ and coupling strength
U being its parameters. At half-filling, a relation between the staggered magnetization
M and the antiferromagnetic (AFM) gap ${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Delta}}}_{\text{AFM}}$ is established in the small
U limit to compare with that from the Hartree-Fock theory, and a first-order metal-insulator Mott transition in the paramagnetic state is substantiated, which is characterized by discontinuities and hystereses at
UMott=10t. The interaction
Uc for the crossover in the AFM state, separating the weak- and strong-coupling regimes, is found to remain almost unchanged with large dopings, and smaller than
UMott at half-filling because of long range AFM correlations. Finally, an overall phase diagram in the $U\ensuremath{-}\ensuremath{\delta}$ plane is presented, which is composed of four regimes: the AFM insulator at half-filling, the AFM metal with the compressibility $\ensuremath{\kappa}>0$ or $\ensuremath{\kappa}<0$, and the paramagnetic metal, as well as three phase transitions: (i) From the AFM metal to the paramagnetic metal, (ii) between the AFM metal phases with positive and negative $\ensuremath{\kappa}$, and (iii) separating the AFM insulating phase at $\ensuremath{\delta}=0$ from the AFM metal phase for $\ensuremath{\delta}>0$.
We study the metal-insulator transition and magnetic ordering in the Hubbard model using the particle-hole mapping. The analysis simplifies near the ferromagnetic limit. We find that the two-dimensional Hubbard model has a charge excitation gap at half filling for any finite U in this region on both the bipartite square lattice and the nonbipartite triangular lattice. In some cases, the system goes through a first-order phase transition to become a paramagnetic metal as
Sz is lowered. We also discuss the extension to the doped case. We find that in the large U limit, a single doped hole has a bandwidth of order of J rather than t at
Sz=0.
A strong-coupling regime of the Hubbard model around half filling is investigated in the Hartree-Fock random-phase approximation. At half filling, besides a normal solution that gives rise to antiferromagnetic instability at ${T=T}_{\mathrm{N}}^{\mathrm{RPA}}\ensuremath{\sim}U,$ we find a solution representing the paramagnetic phase of the Mott insulator, for which we obtain the N\'eel temperature ${T}_{\mathrm{N}}\ensuremath{\sim}J$ in three-dimensional lattices. The solution is interpreted as the ferromagnetic band insulator depolarized by spin wave, the bound state of a particle-hole pair. Similarly, an anomalous metallic phase is derived from the Nagaoka ferromagnetic state. We evaluate
TN as a function of doping concentration x to find that it vanishes at $x\ensuremath{\simeq}0.05$ for
U/6t=4 in a simple cubic lattice.
We study the two-dimensional one-band Hubbard model on the square lattice through the spin rotation invariant Kotliar-Ruckenstein slave-boson method, with an emphasis on the electron-doped regime. The phase diagram determined within mean field approximation reveals three different magnetically ordered phases separated by first-order transitions, and a wide instability region as indicated by a negative compressibility. We show that this conundrum of the unstable mean field domain is resolved by spatially mixed phases of neighboring stable states. We also find charge density wave type instabilities in the antiferromagnetically ordered (AFM) state at wave vectors commensurate with the doping. The corresponding charge and spin density response functions are calculated from a Gaussian fluctuations formalism about a magnetic saddle point, for which we provide a detailed derivation. Further, we present density and spin excitation spectra in the AFM phase, allowing for a quantitative calculation of the spin wave parameters, the gap in the longitudinal spin excitation spectrum, and the density excitations in the upper Hubbard band.