I present a scheme for performing weak-coupling expansions for the Hubbard model on square clusters near half-filling. Using this scheme the 6 × 6 cluster with 2, 3 and 4 holes is considered. I have calculated the ground-state quantum numbers for the 3- and 4-hole cases. In the 3-hole case I find a nonzero momentum near the (±π/2, ±π/2) points, while for the four-hole case the momentum is (0, 0). The calculation of low-lying excited states indicates the opening of a spin gap as one dopes away from half-filling.
The stability of the insulating regime of the Hubbard model on a
d-dimensional lattice, which is characterized by an exponential decay of the Green's functions, is investigated in terms of a cluster expansion. This expansion for the Green's function is organized in terms of connected clustered transfer matrices. An upper bound for the expansion terms is derived for the hopping rate
tˉ depending on the coupling constant
U as ${\bar t}