We derive an effective spin Hamiltonian for the one-dimensional half-filled Alternating Hubbard model in the limit of strong on-site repulsion. We show that the effective Hamiltonian is a spin
S=1/2 Heisenberg chain with asymmetric next-nearest-neighbor (nnn) exchange.
We investigate the ground-state phase diagram of the half-filled one-dimensional Hubbard model with next-nearest-neighbor hopping using the density-matrix renormalization-group technique as well as an unrestricted Hartree-Fock approximation. We find commensurate and incommensurate disordered magnetic insulating phases and a spin-gapped metallic phase in addition to the one-dimensional Heisenberg phase. At large on-site Coulomb repulsion U, we make contact with the phase diagram of the frustrated Heisenberg chain, which has spin-gapped phases for sufficiently large frustration. For weak U, sufficiently large next-nearest-neighbor hopping
t2 leads to a band structure with four Fermi points rather than two, producing a spin-gapped metallic phase. As U is increased in this regime, the system undergoes a Mott-Hubbard transition to a frustrated antiferromagnetic insulator.
With the aim of contributing to a better understanding of the finite-temperature properties of low-dimensional strongly correlated systems we study a one-dimensional half-filled-band extended Hubbard model with a term of exchange interaction between neighboring sites. We analyze the temperature dependence of the specific heat, internal energy, entropy, number of doubly occupied sites, magnetic susceptibility, spin-spin correlation functions, and also investigate a detailed diagram of magnetic correlations. We use the method of small-cluster exact diagonalization calculations with the application of the grand canonical ensemble and of extrapolation techniques to the infinite chain. Our results show that the examined model exhibits a rich structure of magnetic properties due to the competition between the onsite Coulombian repulsion and the exchange interaction.
We investigate the ground state properties of the two-dimensional half-filled one band Hubbard model in the strong (large-
U) to intermediate coupling limit (i.e., away from the strict Heisenberg limit) using an effective spin-only low-energy theory that includes nearest-neighbor exchange, ring exchange, and all other spin interactions to order
t(t∕U)3. We show that the operator for the staggered magnetization, transformed for use in the effective theory, differs from that for the order parameter of the spin model by a renormalization factor accounting for the increased charge fluctuations as
t∕U is increased from the $t∕U\ensuremath{\rightarrow}0$ Heisenberg limit. These charge fluctuations lead to an increase of the quantum fluctuations over and above those for an
S=1∕2 antiferromagnet. The renormalization factor ensures that the zero temperature staggered moment for the Hubbard model is a monotonously decreasing function of
t∕U, despite the fact that the moment of the spin Hamiltonian, which depends on transverse spin fluctuations only, in an increasing function of
t∕U. We also comment on quantitative aspects of the
t∕U and
1∕S expansions.