In this paper we employ a Gaussian expansion within the finite-
U slave-bosons formalism to investigate the momentum structure of the electron-phonon vertex function in the Hubbard model as function of U and n. The suppression of large momentum scattering and the onset of a small-
q peak structure, parametrized by a cut-off
qc, are shown to be essentially ruled by the band narrowing factor
ZMF due to the electronic correlation. A phase diagram of
ZMF and
qc in the whole
U−−n space is presented. Our results are in more than qualitative agreement with a recent numerical analysis and permit one to understand some anomalous features of the quantum Monte Carlo data.
The search for realistic one-dimensional (1D) models that exhibit dominant superconducting (SC) fluctuations effects has a long history. In these 1D systems, the effects of commensurate band fillings---strongest at half-filling---and electronic repulsions typically lead to a finite charge gap and the favoring of insulating density wave ordering over superconductivity. Accordingly, recent proposals suggesting a gapless metallic state in the Holstein-Hubbard (HH) model, possibly superconducting, have generated considerable interest and controversy, with the most recent work demonstrating that the putative dominant superconducting state likely does not exist. In this paper we study a model with nonlocal electron-phonon interactions, in addition to electron-electron interactions. This model unambiguously possesses dominant superconducting fluctuations at half filling in a large region of parameter space. Using both the numerical multi-scale functional renormalization group (MFRG) for the full model and an analytic conventional renormalization group for a bosonized version of the model, we demonstrate the existence of these dominant SC fluctuations and show that they arise because the spin-charge coupling at high energies is weakened by the nonlocal electron-phonon interaction and the charge gap is destroyed by the resultant suppression of the Umklapp process. The existence of the dominant SC pairing instability in this half-filled 1D system suggests that nonlocal boson-mediated interactions may be important in the superconductivity observed in the organic superconductors.
The two-dimensional many-body Holstein-Hubbard model in the
T=0 normal state is examined within the framework of the self-consistent coupling of charge fluctuation correlations to the vibrational ones. The parameters of our model are the adiabaticity, the electron concentration, as well as the electron-phonon and the Coulomb interaction strengths. A fluctuation-based effective cumulant approach is introduced to examine the
T=0 normal-state fluctuations and an analytic approximation to the true dynamical entangled ground state is suggested. Our results for the effective charge-transfer amplitude, the ground state energy, the fluctuations in the phonon population, the phonon softening as well as the coupling constant renormalizations suggest that, the recent numerical calculations of de Mello and Ranninger (Ref. 5), Berger, Val\'a\ifmmode \check{s}\else \v{s}\fi{}ek, and von der Linden (Ref. 2), and Marsiglio (Refs. 4 and 8) on systems with finite degrees of freedom can be qualitatively extended to the systems with large degrees of freedom.