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 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=-3.17+2.83
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 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.
The spectral function of a single hole in the two-dimensional Hubbard model is studied numerically through exact diagonalization for a nine-site cluster over a wide range of interaction strengths U. In the weak-interaction limit, the spectral function consists of sharp quasiparticle peaks corresponding to the allowed single-particle excitations of the noninteracting system. As the interaction strength increases, the spectral weight begins to spread over a large range of energies, and satellite structures appear at higher excitation energy. The band-narrowing effect and the quasiparticle weight are investigated. The results are discussed in connection with other analytical and numerical studies on the spectral function.
We give the details of the calculation of the spectral functions of the one-dimensional Hubbard model using the spin-charge factorized wave function for several versions of the U\ensuremath{\rightarrow}+\ensuremath{\infty} limit. The spectral functions are expressed as a convolution of charge and spin dynamical correlation functions. A procedure to evaluate these correlation functions very accurately for large systems is developed, and analytical results are presented for the low-energy region. These results are fully consistent with the conformal field theory. We also propose a direct method of extracting the exponents from the matrix elements in more general cases.