The Hubbard model is one of the most important models of many-body physics. It is a simplified model for how electrons move and interact in a crystal. It consists of a hopping term, where electrons can move between neighboring sites (sometimes more distant neighbors are allowed). When two electrons (of opposite spin) occupy the same lattice site, they feel a Coulomb repulsion. This model can be exactly solved only in one dimension, in the limit of infinite dimensions, or for small systems via exact diagonalization. It has been studied by thousands of physicists over the years. While much is known about the model, even more remains unknown, so it is still a great frontier to examine further. In this chapter, we focus on the known solutions and provide concrete examples and rigorous theorems about the behavior of the model. This includes the symmetries of spin, particle number, and pseudospin, the Nagaoka theorem for ferromagnetism, spin-reflection positivity, and spin and pseudospin towers.
The Hubbard model is one of the most important models of many-body physics. It is a simplified model for how electrons move and interact in a crystal. It consists of a hopping term, where electrons can move between neighboring sites (sometimes more distant neighbors are allowed). When two electrons (of opposite spin) occupy the same lattice site, they feel a Coulomb repulsion. This model can be exactly solved only in one dimension, in the limit of infinite dimensions, or for small systems via exact diagonalization. It has been studied by thousands of physicists over the years. While much is known about the model, even more remains unknown, so it is still a great frontier to examine further. In this chapter, we focus on the known solutions and provide concrete examples and rigorous theorems about the behavior of the model. This includes the symmetries of spin, particle number, and pseudospin, the Nagaoka theorem for ferromagnetism, spin-reflection positivity, and spin and pseudospin towers.
The Hubbard model is a `highly oversimplified model' for electrons in a solid which interact with each other through extremely short-ranged repulsive (Coulomb) interaction. The Hamiltonian of the Hubbard model consists of two parts: which describes quantum mechanical hopping of electrons, and which describes non-linear repulsive interaction. Either or alone is easy to analyse, and does not favour any specific order. But their sum is believed to exhibit various non-trivial phenomena including metal-insulator transition, antiferromagnetism, ferrimagnetism, ferromagnetism, Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid, and superconductivity. It is believed that we can find various interesting `universality classes' of strongly interacting electron systems by studying the idealized Hubbard model. In the present article we review some mathematically rigorous results relating to the Hubbard model which shed light on the `physics' of this fascinating model. We mainly concentrate on the magnetic properties of the model in its ground states. We discuss the Lieb-Mattis theorem on the absence of ferromagnetism in one dimension, Koma-Tasaki bounds on the decay of correlations at finite temperatures in two dimensions, the Yamanaka-Oshikawa-Affleck theorem on low-lying excitations in one dimension, Lieb's important theorem for the half-filled model on a bipartite lattice, Kubo-Kishi bounds on the charge and superconducting susceptibilities of half-filled models at finite temperatures, and three rigorous examples of saturated ferromagnetism due to Nagaoka, Mielke, and Tasaki. We have tried to make the article accessible to non-experts by giving basic definitions and describing elementary materials in detail.
The Hubbard model is a "highly oversimplified model" for electrons in a solid which interact with each other through extremely short ranged repulsive (Coulomb) interaction. The Hamiltonian of the Hubbard model consists of two pieces; H_hop which describes quantum mechanical hopping of electrons, and Hint which describes nonlinear repulsive interaction. Either H_hop or H_int alone is easy to analyze, and does not favor any specific order. But their sum H=H_hop+H_int is believed to exhibit various nontrivial phenomena including metal-insulator transition, antiferromagnetism, ferrimagnetism, ferromagnetism, Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid, and superconductivity. It is believed that we can find various interesting "universality classes" of strongly interacting electron systems by studying the idealized Hubbard model. In the present article we review some mathematically rigorous results on the Hubbard model which shed light on "physics" of this fascinating model. We mainly concentrate on magnetic properties of the model at its ground states. We discuss Lieb-Mattis theorem on the absence of ferromagnetism in one dimension, Koma-Tasaki bounds on decay of correlations at finite temperatures in two-dimensions, Yamanaka-Oshikawa-Affleck theorem on low-lying excitations in one-dimension, Lieb's important theorem for half-filled model on a bipartite lattice, Kubo-Kishi bounds on the charge and superconducting susceptibilities of half-filled models at finite temperatures, and three rigorous examples of saturated ferromagnetism due to Nagaoka, Mielke, and Tasaki. We have tried to make the article accessible to nonexperts by describing basic definitions and elementary materials in detail.
The description of a solid at a microscopic level is complex, involving the interaction of a huge number of its constituents, such as ions or electrons. The Hubbard model used in this research describes interacting electrons in narrow energy bands, with application to problems as diverse as high – Tc superconductivity, band magnetism and the metal-insulator transition. This research seeks to solve one of the most challenging problems in Theoretical physics which is to describe electronic correlations. In this research the t – U Hubbard model is used to solve analytically and numerically using the exact diagonalization techniquesThis research work focused on the spin interaction and magnetic behavior of some systems and it is therefore an investigation into the various phenomena seen in the phase diagram of ferromagnetic systems. We studied the 2 electrons on 2 sites, 2 electrons on 3 sites and 2 electrons on 4 sites all in One-Dimension (1-D), where the onsite coulomb repulsion, U, and the hopping matrix element, t, were varies to determine their magnetic phase diagram.This results obtained shows that, as the values of the onsite coulomb repulsion, U, increases in all the lattice systems studied, the electronic correlation that favours ferromagnetism gets stronger, but there were no clear transition, and at some point the lattices loss its antiferromagnetic properties, hence the instability of ferromagnetism were established. It was also observed that as the hopping matrix element, t, increases the electronic correlation that favours ferromagnetism get stronger and the lattice begins to loss antiferromagnetic properties but beyond the transition point the lattice began to gain a much stronger antiferromagnetism, hence the ferromagnetism is unstable.
The description of a solid at a microscopic level is complex, involving the interaction of a huge number of its constituents, such as ions or electrons.The Hubbard model used in this research describes interacting electrons in narrow energy bands, with application to problems as diverse as high -Tc superconductivity, band magnetism and the metal-insulator transition.This research seeks to solve one of the most challenging problems in Theoretical physics which is to describe electronic correlations.In this research the t -U Hubbard model is used to solve analytically and numerically using the exact diagonalization techniques This research work focused on the spin interaction and magnetic behavior of some systems and it is therefore an investigation into the various phenomena seen in the phase diagram of ferromagnetic systems.We studied the 2 electrons on 2 sites, 2 electrons on 3 sites and 2 electrons on 4 sites all in One-Dimension (1-D), where the onsite coulomb repulsion, U, and the hopping matrix element, t, were varies to determine their magnetic phase diagram.This results obtained shows that, as the values of the onsite coulomb repulsion, U, increases in all the lattice systems studied, the electronic correlation that favours ferromagnetism gets stronger, but there were no clear transition, and at some point the lattices loss its antiferromagnetic properties, hence the instability of ferromagnetism were established.It was also observed that as the hopping matrix element, t, increases the electronic correlation that favours ferromagnetism get stronger and the lattice begins to loss antiferromagnetic properties but beyond the transition point the lattice began to gain a much stronger antiferromagnetism, hence the ferromagnetism is unstable.
It is believed that strong ferromagnetic interactions in some solids are generated by subtle interplay between quantum many-body effects and spin-independent Coulomb interactions between electrons. It is a challenging problem to verify this scenario in the Hubbard model, which is an idealized model for strongly interacting electrons in a solid. Nagaoka's ferromagnetism is a well-known rigorous example of ferromagnetism in the Hubbard model. It deals with the limiting situation in which there is one fewer electron than in the half-filling and the on-site Coulomb interaction is infinitely large. There are relatively new rigorous examples of ferromagnetism in Hubbard models called flat-band ferromagnetism. Flat-band ferromagnetism takes place in carefully prepared models in which the lowest bands (in the single-electron spectra) are “flat.” Usually, these two approaches are regarded as two complimentary routes to ferromagnetism in the Hubbard model. In the present paper we describe Nagaoka's ferromagnetism and flat-band ferromagnetism in detail, giving all the necessary background as well as complete (but elementary) mathematical proofs. By studying an intermediate model called the long-range hopping model, we also demonstrate that there is indeed a deep relation between these two seemingly different approaches to ferromagnetism. We further discuss some attempts to go beyond these approaches. We briefly discuss recent rigorous example of ferromagnetism in the Hubbard model which has neither infinitely large parameters nor completely flat bands. We give preliminary discussion regarding possible experimental realizations of the (nearly-)flat-band ferromagnetism. Finally, we focus on some theoretical attempts to understand metallic ferromagnetism. We discuss three artificial one-dimensional models in which the existence of metallic ferromagnetism can be easily proved. We have tried to make the present paper as self-contained as possible, keeping in mind readers who are new to the field. Although the present paper is written as a review, it contains some material which appears for the first time.