Spin and hole excitation spectra and spectral weights are calculated for the half-filled Hubbard model, as functions of
t∕U. We find that the high energy spin spectra are sensitive to charge fluctuations. The energy difference $\ensuremath{\Delta}(\ensuremath{\pi},0)\ensuremath{-}\ensuremath{\Delta}(\ensuremath{\pi}∕2,\ensuremath{\pi}∕2)$ in the single-magnon dispersion relation, which is negative for the Heisenberg model, changes sign at a fairly small $t∕U\ensuremath{\approx}0.053(5)$. The hole bandwidth is proportional to
J, and considerably larger than in the $t\text{\ensuremath{-}}J$ models. It has a minimum at $(\ensuremath{\pi}∕2,\ensuremath{\pi}∕2)$ and a very weak dispersion along the antiferromagnetic zone boundary. A good fit to the measured spin spectra in
La2CuO4 at
T=10K is obtained with the parameter values
U=3.1eV,
t=0.35eV.
The use of hydrodynamic transport theory seems to indicate that the charge diffusion constant
D of the one-dimensional (1D) half-filled Hubbard model, whose Drude weight vanishes, diverges for temperature
T>0, which would imply anomalous superdiffusive charge transport. Here the leading term of that constant is derived for low finite temperatures ${k}_{B}T/{\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Delta}}}_{\ensuremath{\eta}}\ensuremath{\ll}1$ where ${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Delta}}}_{\ensuremath{\eta}}$ is the Mott-Hubbard gap. It only diverges in the $T\ensuremath{\rightarrow}0$ limit, being finite and decreasing upon increasing
T within the ${k}_{B}T/{\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Delta}}}_{\ensuremath{\eta}}\ensuremath{\ll}1$ regime. Our exact results both provide valuable physical information on a complex quantum problem and bring about the interesting unsolved issue of how charge transport evolves from normal diffusive for ${k}_{B}T/{\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Delta}}}_{\ensuremath{\eta}}\ensuremath{\ll}1$ to anomalous superdiffusive in the ${k}_{B}T\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\ensuremath{\infty}$ limit.
In this paper we study the charge and spin currents transported by the elementary excitations of the one-dimensional Hubbard model. The corresponding current spectra are obtained by both analytic methods and numerical solution of the Bethe-ansatz equations. For the case of half-filling, we find that the spin-triplet excitations carry spin but no charge, while charge
η-spin triplet excitations carry charge but no spin, and both spin-singlet and charge
η-spin-singlet excitations carry neither spin nor charge currents.