We have calculated the spin correlation length of the half-filled one-dimensional Hubbard model down to the temperature of T =0.01×(transfer integral) by the Bethe-Ansatz method for the quantum transfer matrix. Its temperature dependence shows the crossover from (2 log π T ) -1 at high temperatures to a T -1 with the log corrections at low temperatures, the low- T behavior being consistent with the prediction by the conformal field theory. When the Coulomb repulsion U is small, we have found at low temperatures another crossover in the proportional constant a from the value for the free electron system to that for the antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model. This crossover is due to the disappearance of charge fluctuation. A similar crossover has been observed for the linear coefficient of specific heat, C / T .
The asymptotics of the equal-time one-particle Green's function of the half-filled one-dimensional Hubbard model is studied at finite temperature. We calculate its correlation length by evaluating the largest and the second largest eigenvalues of the Quantum Transfer Matrix (QTM). In order to allow for the genuinely fermionic nature of the one-particle Green's function, we employ the fermionic formulation of the QTM based on the fermionic R -operator of the Hubbard model. The purely imaginary value of the second largest eigenvalue reflects the k F ( = π/2) oscillations of the one-particle Green's function at half-filling. By solving numerically the Bethe ansatz equations with Trotter numbers up to N = 10240, we obtain accurate data for the correlation length at finite temperatures down into the very low-temperature region. The correlation length remains finite even at T = 0 due to the existence of the charge gap. Our numerical data confirm Stafford and Millis' conjecture regarding an analytic expression for the correlation length at T = 0.
The Feynman path-integral quantum Monte Carlo (PI QMC) approach has been employed to study the specific heat C of the one-dimensional (1D) half-filled Hubbard chain as a function of temperature. For not too strong many-body interactions C exhibits a single maximum only. With increasing correlation strength the C curve shows an intermediate minimum separating a sharp low-temperature maximum and a broad high-temperature profile. The first peak is caused by spin excitations and the high-temperature values of C are determined by charge degrees of freedom. The contribution of both quantities to the net specific heat curve has been quantified in the present theoretical setup. The specific heat data are interpreted with the aid of calculated charge fluctuations, probabilities Pi(n) to find n = 2, 1, 0 electrons at the respective lattice sites, a spin density wave (SDW) order parameter and the electronic chemical potential μ.
We describe a low-temperature approach to the two-dimensional half-filled Hubbard model which allows us to study both antiferromagnetism and single-particle properties. This approach ignores amplitude fluctuations of the antiferromagnetic (AF) order parameter and is valid below a crossover temperature
TX which marks the onset of AF short-range order. Directional fluctuations (spin waves) are described by a nonlinear sigma model $(\mathrm{NL}\ensuremath{\sigma}\mathrm{M})$ that we derive from the Hubbard model. The parameters of the $\mathrm{NL}\ensuremath{\sigma}\mathrm{M}$---the spin stiffness and spin-wave velocity---are calculated as a function of the Coulomb repulsion U. The $\mathrm{NL}\ensuremath{\sigma}\mathrm{M}$ is solved by a saddle-point approximation within the
CP1 representation where the N\'eel field is parametrized by two Schwinger bosons. At zero temperature, there is always Bose condensation of the Schwinger bosons, which signals AF long-range order for any value of the Coulomb repulsion. At finite temperature, the AF long-range order is suppressed (in agreement with the Mermin-Wagner theorem), but the AF correlation length remains exponentially large. In the
CP1 representation, the fermion field is naturally expressed as the product of a Schwinger boson and a pseudofermion whose spin is quantized along the (fluctuating) N\'eel field. This allows us to write the fermion Green's function as the product (in direct space) of the Schwinger boson propagator (which is derived from the $\mathrm{NL}\ensuremath{\sigma}\mathrm{M})$ and the pseudofermion propagator. At zero temperature and weak coupling, our results are typical of a Slater antiferromagnet. The AF gap is exponentially small; there are well-defined Bogoliubov quasiparticles (QP's) (carrying most of the spectral weight) coexisting with a high-energy incoherent excitation background. As U increases, the Slater antiferromagnet progressively becomes a Mott-Heisenberg antiferromagnet. The Bogoliubov bands evolve into Mott-Hubbard bands separated by a large AF gap. A significant fraction of spectral weight is transferred from the Bogoliubov QP's to incoherent excitations. At finite temperature, there is a metal-insulator transition between a pseudogap phase at weak coupling and a Mott-Hubbard insulator at strong coupling. Finally, we point out that our results straightforwardly translate to the half-filled attractive Hubbard model, where the $\mathbf{q}=(\ensuremath{\pi},\ensuremath{\pi})$ charge and
q=0 pairing fluctuations combine to form an order parameter with SO(3) symmetry.
We investigate temperature dependence of spin correlations in the one-dimen- sional Hubbard model at or close to half filling by the quantum Monte Carlo method. The numerical data are analyzed by introducing a crossover generated from an interplay of the intrinsic correlation length and the thermal correlation length. It provides a unified picture of the spin correlation of the metallic phase near the Mott insulator at finite temperatures. Our results show that the crossover, not taken account by the conventional renormalization group and the conformal field theory, becomes more and more important to understand the spin correlation near the Mott transition point.
Correlation effects in the one-dimensional Hubbard model are studied by application of the L-resolvent method. The calculations are well beyond one-particle mean field approximation. All correlations involving two neighboring sites are included exactly and higher order correlations are approximated. The effects of varying temperature, band filling, Coulomb repulsion and external magnetic field are investigated. Two-site correlations for non-half-filled band fillings are calculated for the first time. Some exact relations between correlation functions are derived by electron-hole symmetry. Results indicate that short-range spin correlations always favor antiferromagnetic order. Large Coulomb repulsion induces a gap in the excitation spectrum and a metal-insulator transition is predicted as the Coulomb repulsion parameter is changed.