Hubbard model of strong correlations

Sam Y. S. Yang, Colin J. Thompson

High-temperature expansions for the specific heat and susceptibility of the strongly correlated Hubbard model are compared with corresponding quantities for spinless free fermions and free spins. It is found numerically that, when the temperature is high, the ratio of the specific heat of the strongly correlated Hubbard model to that of spinless free fermions approaches a particle-density-dependent constant. For fixed temperature, the susceptibility of the Hubbard model is less (greater) than that of free spins when the particle density is below (above) a certain threshold density of approximately 0.7. The ratio of the susceptibilities for the two systems, however, appears to be finite for any value of the particle density. Given that the free spin system does not have a ferromagnetic state at any finite temperature, it is concluded that the strongly correlated Hubbard model does not have a finite phase transition temperature. This conclusion is consistent with recent high-temperature expansion studies.

Miguel Lagos, Miguel Kiwi, R. Ramirez

I. V. Sankar, Ashok Chatterjee

The two-dimensional extended Holstein-Hubbard model (EHH) has been considered at strong correlation regime in the non-half-filled band case to understand the self-trapping transition of electrons in strongly correlated electron system. We have used the method of optimized canonical transformations to transform an EHH model into an effective extended Hubbard (EEH) model. In the strong on-site correlation limit an EH model can be transformed into a t-J model which is finally solved using Hartree-Fock approximation (HFA). We found that, for non-half-filled band case, the transition is abrupt in the adiabatic region whereas it is continuous in the anti-adiabatic region.

Jakob Bernasconi

I. V. Sankar, Ashok Chatterjee

The Holstein-Hubbard model is studied in two dimensions to explore the nature of polarons as a function of hole concentration in the strong correlation regime. A series of canonical transformations is performed to obtain an effective extended Hubbard model which, in the strong on-site electron-electron correlation regime, transforms into a t-J model and is solved using the mean-field Hartree-Fock approximation (HFA). It is shown that the hopping parameter which is related to the bandwidth of the polaron is very small for low (x ≈ 0) and high (x ≈ 1) hole concentrations whereas the hopping parameter is much larger for the intermediate hole concentrations.