We compare two time-reversal-symmetric triangular-lattice Hubbard models at half filling: the zero-flux model and a staggered
π-flux model with zero and
π flux through oppositely oriented triangles. Although both reduce to the same Heisenberg model at leading order in the strong-coupling limit, their distinct charge fluctuation profiles yield different quantum paramagnetic regimes. Combining a strong-coupling expansion with infinite density matrix renormalization group (iDMRG) calculations, we find that the positive ring-exchange of the zero-flux model promotes spontaneous chirality, consistent with its notion of a chiral spin liquid at intermediate coupling. In the staggered-
π-flux model, whose noninteracting limit is a Dirac semimetal, the ring exchange changes sign and disfavors chiral order and we find no resolvable scalar chirality. This renders flux-tuned ring-exchange an efficient discriminator between chiral and non-chiral quantum paramagnets at finite coupling.
We investigate the phase diagram of the half-filled
SU(N) Hubbard-Heisenberg model with hopping
t, exchange
J, and Hubbard
U, on a two-dimensional square lattice. In the large-
N limit, and as a function of decreasing values of
t∕J, the model shows a transition from a
d-density wave state to a spin dimerized insulator. A similar behavior is observed at
N=6 whereas at
N=2 a spin density wave insulating ground state is stabilized. The
N=4 model, has a
d-density wave ground state at large values of
t∕J which as a function of decreasing values of
t∕J becomes unstable to an insulating state with no apparent lattice and spin broken symmetries. In this state, the staggered spin-spin correlations decay as a power law, resulting in gapless spin excitations at $\stackrel{P\vec}{q}=(\ensuremath{\pi},\ensuremath{\pi})$. Furthermore, low lying spin modes with small spectral weight are apparent around the wave vectors $\stackrel{P\vec}{q}=(0,\ensuremath{\pi})$ and $\stackrel{P\vec}{q}=(\ensuremath{\pi},0)$. This gapless spin liquid state is equally found in the SU(4) Heisenberg $(U∕t\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\ensuremath{\infty})$ model in the self-adjoint antisymmetric representation. An interpretation of this state in terms of a $\ensuremath{\pi}$-flux phase is offered. Our results stem from projective
(T=0) quantum Monte Carlo simulations on lattice sizes ranging up to $24\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}24$.
We study the magnetic properties of the two-dimensional Hubbard model with nearest-neighbor (t) and next-nearest-neighbor (
t2) hopping and on-site repulsion U. We first calculate the mean-field phase diagram as a function of band filling and U. Because of the Van Hove singularity in the density of states, we find a ferromagnetic phase extending to zero U for certain band filling. For the half-filled band case, antiferromagnetism sets in at a finite value of U if
t2\ensuremath{\ne}0. We study the behavior of spin-spin correlation functions for small lattices of up to N=64 atoms using Monte Carlo simulations, as well as exact diagonalization for N=4. Our results show enhanced ferromagnetic correlations in some regions, but apparently no ferromagnetic long-range order. In the half-filled case, our numerical results are consistent with a nonzero critical U. For a non-half-filled band our results suggest that there is no long-range order.
Numerical results obtained from Monte Carlo simulation in the ground state and at finite temperatures as well as the exact diagonalization and the transfer matrix method are reported. Efficiency of the Monte Carlo method in the ground state is examined. Spin, charge and superconducting correlations are investigated for the Hubbard and the t - J model in one and two dimensions. The momentum distribution in the one-dimensional Hubbard model shows fermi-liquid-like behavior at least in two orders of magnitude smaller energy scale than the band width. The short-range incommensurate spin correlation is observed and analyzed in the doped Hubbard and the t - J model both in one and two dimensions. In the ground state, the superconducting correlation shows the absence of system size dependence in two dimensions at the filling smaller than 0.8 and in one dimension at any filling. The binding energy of two fermions and the spin and charge distortion around an itinerant fermion are also discussed in the t - J and the coupled spin-fermion model.
We investigate ground state properties of the half-filled staggered-flux Hubbard model on a square lattice. Energy gaps to charge and spin excitations and magnetic as well as dimer orders are calculated as a function of interaction strength U/t by means of a constrained-path quantum Monte Carlo method. It is found that the system is a semimetal at U/t≲5.6 and a Mott insulator, with long-range antiferromagnetic order, at U/t≳6.6. In the range 5.6≲U/t≲6.6, the ground state is a correlated insulator where both magnetic and dimer orders are absent. Furthermore, spin excitation in the intermediate phase appears to be gapless, and the measured spin-spin correlation function exhibits power-law decaying behavior. The data suggest that the nonmagnetic ground state is a possible candidate for the putative algebraic spin liquid.