Ferromagnetism in the Hubbard model with long-range and correlated hopping
Abstract
The extrapolation of small-cluster exact-diagonalization calculations is used to examine ferromagnetism in the one-dimensional Hubbard model with long-range and correlated hopping. It is found that the correlated hopping term stabilizes the ferromagnetic state for a wide range of electron interactions U and electron concentrations n. The critical value of the interaction strength Uc above which the ferromagnetic state becomes stable is calculated numerically and the ground-state phase diagram of the model is presented for physically the most interesting cases. 1 The Hubbard model has become, since its inception [1] in 1963, one of the most popular examples of a system of interacting electrons with short-range interactions. It has been used in the literature to study a great variety of many-body effects in metals, of which ferromagnetism, metal-insulator transitions, charge-density waves and superconductivity are the most common examples. Of all these cooperative phenomena the problem of ferromagnetism in the Hubbard model has the longest