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Scaling and continuum limits at half-filling

Fabian H. L. Eßler, Holger Frahm, Frank Göhmann, Andreas Klümper, V. E. Korepin

Published Feb 7, 2005• 0 citations
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At half-filling the repulsive Hubbard model is in a Mott insulating phase. The charge degrees of freedom are gapped, whereas the spin degrees of freedom remain gapless. At low energies the spin sector is actually scale invariant (apart from logarithmic corrections) and Conformal Field Theory (CFT) methods may be applied to determine the low-energy behaviour of correlation functions involving only the spin sector. On the other hand, the charge sector is not scale invariant and CFT does not provide any information for correlators involving the charge degrees of freedom. In this chapter we will show that there exists a particular continuum limit of the half filled Hubbard model, in which it is possible to calculate dynamical correlation functions by means of methods of integrable quantum field theory. We first construct a Lorentz invariant scaling limit starting from the results for the excitation spectrum and the S-matrix discussed in Chapter 7. This scaling limit is identified as the SU(2) Thirring model, which is an integrable relativistic quantum field theory. Next we discuss a continuum limit , which is obtained directly from the Hubbard Hamiltonian and describes the vicinity of the scaling limit. Construction of the scaling limit The simplest way of constructing the scaling limit is to start with the results for the dispersions of the elementary excitations and the S-matrix derived in Chapter 7 and then look for a particular limit in which Lorentz invariance is recovered.

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10.1017/cbo9780511534843.011

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In this chapter we want to refine the analysis of the ground state and low-lying excitations of the Hubbard model in the phases with gapless modes, i.e. phases II, IV and V discussed in Chapters 6, 7, by taking account of corrections which are important when considering Hubbard chains of finite length L . For the generic case, i.e. away from half-filling in a magnetic field, the finite-size corrections to the spectrum of the Hubbard model have been calculated by F. Woynarovich [487]. These results are the basis for our discussion in the following Chapter 9 of the asymptotic behaviour of correlation functions within the conformal approach [6, 51, 62, 75] and thereby will allow us to make contact with Haldane's Luttinger liquid approach for the description of one-dimensional strongly correlated electron systems [189–192] Generic case – the repulsive Hubbard model in a magnetic field To investigate how the thermodynamic limit is approached we have to take into account finite-size corrections in our previous derivation of integral equations from Takahashi's equations. This analysis has to be performed separately for each of the phases with gapless excitations identified before. From a technical point of view the most complex situation is found in phase IV – the partially filled, partially magnetized band with two massless modes. The finite-size scaling behaviour in the phases with a single gapless mode can be studied using the same techniques and we will point out the differences to the ‘generic’ case studied in this section later in this chapter.
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Abstract We present a T = 0 K renormalization group (RG) phase diagram for the electronic Hubbard model in two dimensions on the square lattice at half filling. The RG procedure treats quantum fluctuations in the single particle occupation number nonperturbatively via the unitarily decoupling of one electronic state at every RG step. The resulting phase diagram thus possesses the quantum fluctuation energy scale (ω) as one of its axes. A relation is derived between ω and the effective temperature scale upto which gapless, as well as emergent gapped phases can be obtained. We find that the normal and insulating phases of the half-filled Hubbard model correspond, for any on-site repulsion, to a marginal Fermi liquid normal phase and a topologically-ordered gapped Mott insulating liquid respectively. The marginal Fermi liquid is found to arise from singular forward scattering in directions normal to the nested Fermi surface, while singular backscattering events lead to Mott liquid state. The transition between these two phases involves passage through a pseudogapped phase bookended by Fermi surface topology-changing Lifshitz transitions. The pseudogap phase is observed to arise from the electronic differentiation encoded within the nested Fermi surface, and involves the gradual gapping of the Fermi surface from antinodes to nodes via charge and spin excitations that are mutually entangled. We obtain effective Hamiltonians for various phases, as well as wavefunctions for the low-energy many-body eigenstates of the Mott liquid. Benchmarking of the ground-state energy per particle and the double-occupancy fraction for the Mott liquid against existing numerical results yields excellent agreement. Presence of a Néel ordering symmetry-breaking perturbation in the RG leads to an antiferromagnetic spin-ordered charge insulating Mott state. Our results thus offer novel insights on a variety of aspects of the Mott–Hubbard problem, and can be extended to the doped system.