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Physical review. B, Condensed matter

Atomic screening and intersite Coulomb repulsion in strongly correlated systems

M.B.J. Meinders, Jeroen van den Brink, J. Lorenzana, G. A. Sawatzky

Published Jul 15, 1995• 27 citations
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Abstract

We consider the influence of a nearest-neighbor Coulomb interaction in an extended Hubbard model and introduce an interaction term which simulates atomic polarizabilities. The inclusion of atomic polarizabilities in the model has the effect of screening the on-site Coulomb interaction for charged excitations, unlike a neighbor Coulomb interaction which reduces energies of neutral local excitations, leaving the conductivity gap unchanged. This is supported by an exact diagonalization study on small, mainly one-dimensional, extended Mott-Hubbard systems. For large V, the system undergoes a phase transition from a spin-density wave (SDW) to a charge-density wave (CDW). It is shown that the SDW/CDW phase transition cannot be described correctly when using effective parameters, but that screening effects have to be included explicitly. Also other phases, one of which is ferroelectric, appear when atomic polarizabilities are included in the model Hamiltonian. We study ${\mathrm{C}}_{60}$ in terms of the degenerate extended Hubbard model with screening effects.

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10.1103/physrevb.52.2484

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We consider the influence of a nearest-neighbor Coulomb interaction in an extended Hubbard model and introduce a new interaction term which simulates atomic polarizabilities. This has the effect of screening the on-site Coulomb interaction for charged excitations, unlike a neighbor Coulomb interaction which reduces energies of locally neutral excitations. We find that the spin density to charge density wave phase transition, however, is determined by the unscreened on-site Coulomb repulsion. The order of this phase transition is affected by polarization. We show that new phases appear, one of which is ferroelectric, when atomic polarizabilities are explicitly included.
We study the effects of a bond-charge interaction (or correlated hopping) on the properties of the extended [i.e., with both on-site (U) and nearest-neighbor (V) repulsions] Hubbard model in one dimension at half-filling. Energy gaps and correlation functions are calculated by Lanczos diagonalization on finite systems. We find that, irrespective of the sign of the bond-charge interaction, X, the charge-density-wave (CDW) state is more robust than the spin-density-wave (SDW) state. A small bond-charge interaction term is enough to make the differences between the CDW and SDW correlation functions much less dramatic than when X=0. For X=t and fixed V2t (t is the uncorrelated hopping integral), there is an intermediate phase between a charge ordered phase and a phase corresponding to singly occupied sites, the nature of which we clarify: it is characterized by a succession of critical points, each of which corresponds to a different density of doubly occupied sites. We also find an unusual slowly decaying staggered spin-density correlation function, which is suggestive of some degree of ordering. No enhancement of pairing correlations was found for any X in the range examined. \textcopyright{} 1996 The American Physical Society.
Based on exact diagonalization results for small clusters we discuss the effect of intersite Coulomb repulsion in Mott-Hubbard or charge transfers insulators. Whereas the exchange constant JJJ for direct exchange is enhanced by intersite Coulomb interaction, that for superexchange is suppressed. The enhancement of JJJ in the single-band models holds up to the critical value for the charge density wave (CDW) instability, thus opening the way for large values of JJJ. Single-band Hubbard models with sufficiently strong intersite repulsion to be near a CDW instability thus may provide physical realizations of $t\ensuremath{-}J$-like models with the "unphysical" parameter ratio $\frac{J}{t}\ensuremath{\approx}1$.
To the conventional Peierls-Hubbard model, involving both on-site (U) and nearest-neighbor (V) Coulomb repulsions, we add ``off-diagonal'' terms, not expressible purely in terms of site densities, representing bond-bond (W) and mixed bond-site (X) electron-electron repulsive interactions involving nearest neighbors. We review earlier analyses of these interactions and discuss relative magnitudes of the parameters in applications to real materials. As a specific illustration, we investigate the effects of the off-diagonal W and X terms on dimerization in the one-dimensional, half-filled-band Peierls-Hubbard models, which have been widely applied to conjugated polymers (such as trans-polyacetylene) and to related quasi-one-dimensional charge-density wave (CDW) systems. Using both weak- and strong-coupling perturbation theory for large systems and exact diagonalizations of small systems, we investigate thoroughly the nature of the ground state of the model. For a broad range of the site-diagonal Hubbard parameters (U,V), including the values believed to be relevant to trans-polyacetylene, we find that the off-diagonal terms (W,X) initially enhance dimerization, thereby stabilizing the dimerized [or bond-order-wave (BOW)] ground state. For (unphysically) large values of W relative to U and V, dimerization is destroyed, and the BOW ground state goes over to a ferromagnetic ground state or a CDW ground state, depending on the relative sizes of U, V, and W. We conclude with a general discussion of the applicability of the Peierls-Hubbard models to quasi-one-dimensional materials, including the potential importance of the breaking of charge conjugation (``particle-hole'') symmetry by the X term.
We study stripe orders of charge and spin density waves in the extended Hubbard model with the nearest-neighbor Coulomb repulsion V within the mean field approximation. We obtain V vs. T(temperature) phase diagram for the on-site Coulomb interaction U/t=8.0 and the filling n=0.8, here t is a nearest-neighbor transfer energy. Our result shows that the diagonal stripe spin density wave state (SDW) is stable for small V, but for large V the most stable state changes to a charge density wave-antiferromagnetic (CDW-AF) state. Especially we find at low temperature and for a certain range of value of V, a vertical stripe CDW-AF state becomes stable.
We provide solid evidence for the long-standing presumption that model Hamiltonians with short-range interactions faithfully reproduce the physics of the long-range Coulomb interaction in real materials. For this aim, we address a generic Hubbard model that captures the quantum phase transitions between metal, Mott insulator, and charge-density-wave (CDW) insulator, in the absence of Fermi-surface nesting. By comparing the quantum phase diagrams for the 1 / r -Hubbard model on a half-filled chain with nearest-neighbor and 1 / r -long-range interactions, we argue that the inclusion of long-range interactions is not crucial for a proper description of interacting many-electron systems. To this end, we employ the density matrix renormalization group method on finite lattices and antiperiodic boundary conditions to determine the quantum phase transitions between the metallic Luttinger liquid for weak interactions, the Mott-Hubbard insulator for dominant on-site interactions, and the CDW insulator for dominant intersite interactions. The two phase diagrams qualitatively agree inasmuch as the quantum phase transitions are continuous in both cases. Moreover, simple Hartree-Fock theory and the atomic limit provide renormalization factors that allow us to quantitatively map the two phase diagrams onto each other. As a practical advantage, our findings imply that computational efforts can be reduced tremendously by using models with short-range interactions only.