Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
Partial Ferromagnetism in a Two-Band Hubbard Model with Semimetallic Bands: Numerical Evidences and a Rigorous Result
Koichi Kusakabe, Shinji Watanabe, Yoshio Kuramoto
Abstract
Role of the double exchange for appearance of partial ferromagnetism in a semimetal is explored for a semimetallic two-band Hubbard model in one-dimension. In a strong coupling limit, a ferromagnetic exchange interaction between two neighboring triplet excitons becomes dominant compared with anti-ferromagnetic couplings and a partial spin polarization is shown to appear. Exact evaluation of magnetization is possible for the partially ferromagnetic ground state in this limit. Obtained phase diagram has a doping dependence similar to our DMRG results for finite interactions. The ferromagnetism is favored in semimetallic systems by the interplay of the intra-orbital Coulomb repulsion and the inter-orbital Hund-rule coupling.