The one-dimensional repulsive Hubbard model with infinitely strong interactions is studied under the open boundary condition. The ground-state wave function of the present model is derived based on the Bethe ansatz method. Using the wave functions thus obtained, the Friedel oscillations in the Hubbard open chain are discussed.
Using the density-matrix renormalization-group (DMRG) technique, we calculate critical exponents for the one-dimensional Hubbard model with open boundary conditions with and without additional boundary potentials at both ends. A direct comparison with open boundary condition Bethe ansatz calculations provides a good check for the DMRG calculations on large system sizes. On the other hand, the DMRG calculations provide an independent check of the predictions of conformal field theory, which are needed to obtain the critical exponents from the Bethe ansatz. From the Bethe ansatz we predict the behavior of the 1/L-corrected mean value of the Friedel oscillations (for the density and the magnetization) and the characteristic wave vectors, and show numerically that these conjectures are fulfilled with and without boundary potentials. The quality of the numerical results allows us to determine the behavior of the coefficients of the Friedel oscillations as a function of the Hubbard interaction.
We use the Bethe ansatz solution for the one-dimensional Hubbard model with open boundary conditions and applied boundary fields to study the spectrum of bound states at the boundary. Depending on the strength of the boundary potentials, one finds that the true ground state contains a single charge or, for boundary potentials comparable with the Hubbard interaction, a pair of electrons in a bound state. If these are left unoccupied one finds holon and spinon bound states. We compute the finite size corrections to the low-lying energies in this system and use the predictions of boundary conformal field theory to study the exponents related to the orthogonality catastrophe.
We use the Bethe Ansatz solution for the one dimensional Hubbard model with open boundary conditions and applied boundary fields to study the spectrum of bound states at the boundary. Depending on the strength of the boundary potentials one finds that the true ground state contains a single charge or, for boundary potentials comparable to the Hubbard interaction, a pair of electrons in a bound state. If these are left unoccupied one finds holon and spinon bound states. We compute the finite size corrections to the low lying energies in this system and use the predictions of boundary conformal field theory to study the exponents related to the orthogonality catastrophe.
The thermodynamic Bethe-ansatz equations for the one-dimensional Hubbard model are derived for an attractive on-site interaction of the electrons, extending in this way Takahashi's result for the repulsive Hubbard chain. The results are discussed in several special limits, e.g., interaction much larger than the hopping, U\ensuremath{\rightarrow}0 case, and the high- and low-temperature limits. The dominating states at low temperatures consist of spin-paired electrons (resembling Cooper pairs) and bound states of such pairs. The excitation spectrum and its properties are discussed in the context of superconductivity and resonant valence bonds.