Supersymmetric approach to the infinite U Hubbard Model
Piers Coleman, C. Pépin
Abstract
We present a preliminary discussion on the use of supersymmetric representation of the Hubbard operator which unifies the slave boson and slave fermion representations into a single U(1) × SU(1|1) gauge theory to treat the physics of the infinite U Hubbard model. By looking for solutions to the Hamiltonian in which the spins can exist as both condensed ordered moments and as mobile charged carriers, we examine the possibility of a Nagaoka ferromagnetic phase at finite doping with a quantum critical point into the paramagnetic phase. Key words: Hubbard model, Supersymmetry, Ferromagnetism The infinite U Hubbard model[1] is a prototype model for strongly correlated electron systems. Interest in this venerable model has grown in recent times because of its link with one of the basic models of high temperature superconductivity, the t − J model.[2] The infinite U Hubbard model corresponds to the t − J model without antiferromagnetic interactions (J → 0). Despite the absence of antiferromagnetic interactions, evidence from finite temperature Lanzcos studies[3] suggests that many of high temperature properties associated with the cuprate metals are already present in the infinite U Hubbard model. The U = ∞ Hubbard hamiltonian is written HK = − t