Physical Review Letters
Existence of Two Phase Transitions in Hubbard Model
W. D. Langer, Michael Plischke, Daniel Charles Mattis
Abstract
We solve the Bubbard model, for one electron per atom in a simple cubic structure, using one-particle Green's functions. We determine the accuracy of this calculation to be good by comparison with an exact solution by Lieb and Wu of a one-dimensional limiting case. When the Coulomb interaction $U$ exceeds about 0.27 of the bandwidth in three dimensions we find there are two critical temperatures: ${T}_{\mathrm{N}}$, the N\'eel order-disorder transition temperature ($\ensuremath{\propto}{U}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$ at large $U$) and a higher critical temperature ${T}_{M}$, at which the atoms lose all vestige of localized moments and at which the insulator-metal transition occurs (${T}_{M}\ensuremath{\propto}U$ at large $U$). For $U$ less than 0.27 of the bandwidth only ${T}_{M}$ exists.