By use of a diagrammatic method we determine the density-density response functions in the random-phase approximation (RPA) and the collective-excitation spectrum for the extended Hubbard model with on-site attraction and arbitrary electron density, in the superconducting ground state. The energy of the collective modes, given by the poles of these response functions, is found to be a linear function of the wave vector (for small k and short-range intersite interaction) with the velocity interpolating smoothly between the weak- (\ensuremath{\propto}2zt, \ensuremath{\Vert}U\ensuremath{\Vert}\ensuremath{\ll}2zt) and strong-coupling (\ensuremath{\propto}
zt2/\ensuremath{\Vert}U\ensuremath{\Vert}, \ensuremath{\Vert}U\ensuremath{\Vert}\ensuremath{\gg}2zt) limits. The latter agrees with the results obtained from an effective pseudospin Hamiltonian valid in the strong-coupling limit. The numerical analysis for a two-dimensional (2D) square lattice shows the occurrence of a rotonlike minima near the zone boundary. In the weak-coupling regime we find that apart from a commensurate charge-density-wave (CDW) instability, an increase in the intersite Coulomb repulsion can give rise to a CDW incommensurate with the lattice period, away from half-filling. The resulting phase diagram for the 2D square lattice, including a singlet superconducting ground state, electronic-droplet formation, and CDW's, is determined. Finally, the effects of a long-range Coulomb interaction are analyzed briefly and it is shown that the energy of collective excitations evolves smoothly from the weak- to the strong-coupling limit for a 2D lattice.
In a magnetic field two-dimensional (2D) electron systems host, with quenched kinetic energy, a variety of many-body correlation phenomena, such as interaction-driven new states and associated collective excitations over them. In a magnetic field, the two-body operators pertinent to the 2D Coulomb interaction obey a crossing relation, with which the Coulomb interaction is also cast into the form of manifest exchange interaction. It is shown that active use of this direct/exchange duality of the interaction allows one to develop, within the framework of the single-mode approximation, a new efficient algorithm for handling a wide class of collective excitations. The utility of our algorithm is demonstrated by studying some examples of inter- and intra-Landau-level collective excitations in graphene and in conventional electron systems.