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Physical review. B, Condensed matter

Dynamics of one hole in the t - J model

Elbio R. Dagotto, Adriana Moreo, Robert Joynt, Silvia Bacci, Eduardo R. Gagliano

Published Feb 1, 1990• 81 citations
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Abstract

We calculated the spectral function of a hole in the t-J model using a numerical method on a 4\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}4 lattice. A sharp quasiparticle peak is observed with an energy that is well approximated by \ensuremath{\Delta}E=-3.17+2.83${J}^{\ensuremath{\alpha}}$ (for 0.1\ensuremath{\le}J\ensuremath{\le}1.0, t=1) with \ensuremath{\alpha}=0.73\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.02. This result suggests that the picture of a hole attached to the origin by a string may be valid in the Heisenberg model. The rest of the spectrum is not completely incoherent but it has a nontrivial structure, stemming from the excited states of the string. The bandwidth of the quasiparticle is discussed. Results for the Ising model are also presented.

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10.1103/physrevb.41.2585

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We calculated the spectral function of a hole in the t-J model using a numerical method on a 4\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}4 lattice. A sharp quasiparticle peak is observed with an energy that is well approximated by \ensuremath{\Delta}E=-3.17+2.83J\ensuremathα{J}^{\ensuremath{\alpha}}J\ensuremathα (for 0.1\ensuremath{\le}J\ensuremath{\le}1.0, t=1) with \ensuremath{\alpha}=0.73\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.02. This result suggests that the picture of a hole attached to the origin by a string may be valid in the Heisenberg model. The rest of the spectrum is not completely incoherent but it has a nontrivial structure, stemming from the excited states of the string. The bandwidth of the quasiparticle is discussed. Results for the Ising model are also presented.
The spectral functions of one hole in the t-J and one-band Hubbard models are calculated using exact diagonalization techniques on small lattices. Results for the t-Jz{\mathit{J}}_{\mathit{z}}Jz​ model are also presented. For the t-J model we found that there is a quasiparticle at the bottom of the hole spectrum with an energy well approximated by Eh{\mathit{E}}_{\mathit{h}}Eh​=-3.17+2.83J0.73{\mathit{J}}^{0.73}J0.73 (for 0.1\ensuremath{\le}J\ensuremath{\le}1.0, t=1) on a 4\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}4 lattice. The rest of the spectrum is not incoherent: We identified at least two other peaks following a similar power-law behavior with J. We speculate that the J dependence of the results can be explained by a model where the hole is trapped in a confining potential as in the Ising limit. The bandwidth of the hole is linear in J in the region 0.1\ensuremath{\le}J\ensuremath{\le}0.4 although a power-law behavior is not excluded. The spectral weight of the quasiparticle grows like J0.5{\mathit{J}}^{0.5}J0.5 in the same region. We present new analytical results in the large J/t limit to understand the motion of the hole: In perturbation theory it can be shown that the momentum of the hole at large J/t is k=(\ensuremath{\pi},\ensuremath{\pi}) changing to k=(\ensuremath{\pi}/2,\ensuremath{\pi}/2) at intermediate J/t in agreement with numerical and spin-waves results. We show analytically and numerically that the bandwidth of the quasiparticle is of order t in the large J/t limit. This result corresponds to a spin-liquid state. The one-hole spectral function of the Hubbard model is obtained for lattices with 8 and 10 sites. A quasiparticle is also observed in this case. The bandwidth and the relation with the t-J model are discussed and a comparison with recent Monte Carlo results is made. We also review and extend previous results for the ground-state properties of the t-J model.
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Abstract The dynamics of a hole motion in a quantum antiferromagnet has been studied in the past three decades because of its relationship to models related to superconductivity in cuprates. The same problem has received significant attention because of its connection to very recent experiments of the dynamics of ultra-cold atoms in optical lattices where models of strongly correlated electrons can be simulated. In this paper we apply the diagrammatic Monte Carlo method to calculate the single-hole Green’s function in the t–J model, where the J term is linearized, in a wide range of imaginary-time with the aim to examine the polaron formation and in particular the details of the contribution of the so-called string excitations found in such recent experiments. We calculate the single-hole spectral function by analytic continuation from imaginary to real time and study the various aspects that constitute the string picture, such as, the energy–momentum dependence of the main quasiparticle peak and its residue, the internal excitations of the string which appear as multiple peaks in the spectral function as well as their momentum dependence. We find that the earlier analysis of the spectral function based on a mobile-hole connected with a string of overturn spins and the contribution of the internal string excitations as obtained from the non-crossing approximation is accurate.
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