The extended Hubbard model (EHM) captures essential interactions (U, V, J) in strongly correlated electron systems, yet unified variational studies of spatial dimensionality effects remain sparse. Using the Highly Simplified Correlated Variational Approach (HSCVA), we investigate 24-site setups in 1D, 2D and 3D lattice with preserved coordination numbers z = 2, 4, 6. We compute the singlettriplet energy gap ( ) and critical exchange coupling (Jc) across U and V. The V = 0 singlet-triplet transition is universal across dimensions. For repulsive V/2t, the gap becomes negative ( ), signaling triplet ground-state stability with saturation values scaling by coordination number: -4.20 (1D), -8.00 (2D) and -15.99 (3D). Critical coupling Jc exhibits linear antisymmetric scaling in 1D and 2D, while 3D systems show non-linear growth for U 0. These results provide quantitative benchmarks for dimensional crossovers in correlated systems.
The extended Hubbard model (EHM) captures essential interactions (U, V, J) in strongly correlated electron systems, yet unified variational studies of spatial dimensionality effects remain sparse. Using the Highly Simplified Correlated Variational Approach (HSCVA), we investigate 24-site setups in 1D, 2D and 3D lattice with preserved coordination numbers z = 2, 4, 6. We compute the singlettriplet energy gap ( ) and critical exchange coupling (Jc) across U and V. The V = 0 singlet-triplet transition is universal across dimensions. For repulsive V/2t, the gap becomes negative ( ), signaling triplet ground-state stability with saturation values scaling by coordination number: -4.20 (1D), -8.00 (2D) and -15.99 (3D). Critical coupling Jc exhibits linear antisymmetric scaling in 1D and 2D, while 3D systems show non-linear growth for U 0. These results provide quantitative benchmarks for dimensional crossovers in correlated systems.
The single-band Hubbard Hamiltonian study faces a serious limitation and difficulty as we move away from finite - size lattices to larger N - dimensional lattices. Thus there is the needto develop the means of overcoming the finite - size lattice defects as we pass on to a higher dimension.In this work, a quantitative approximation to the one-band Hubbard model is presented using a variational analytic approach. The goal of this work, therefore, is to explore quantitatively the lowest ground-state energy and the pairing correlations in 3D N x N x N lattices of the Hubbard model. We developed the unit step model as an approximate solution to the single-band Hubbard Hamiltonian to solve variationallythe correlation of two interacting elections on a three-dimensional cubic lattice. We also showed primarily how to derive possible electronic states available for several even and odd3D lattices, although, this work places more emphasis on a 3D 5 x 5 x 5 lattice. The results emerging from our present study compared favourablywith the results of Gutzwillervariational approach (GVA) and correlated variational approach (CVA), at thelarge limit of the Coulomb interaction strength (U/4t). It is revealed in this study, that the repulsive Coulomb interaction which in part leads to the strong electronic correlations, would indicate that the two electron system prefer not to condense into s-wave superconducting singlet state (s = 0), at high positive values of the interaction strength.
By using the field-theoretical techniques combining bosonization with renormalization group, we study a one-dimensional (1D) model of interacting electrons with on-site repulsion (U > 0), nearest-neighbor (nn) exchange (J) and correlated-hopping (t2, t3) interactions at weak coupling. In the case of a half-filled band, the two-body interaction t2 does not influence phase diagram of the model, while the presence of three-body interaction t3 makes the physics of the system highly non-trivial. By a Hartree–Fock decoupling, the effects of t3 bring about hopping of pairs, V-like (nn Coulomb interaction) and isotropic exchange terms in the reduced model Hamiltonian. Interestingly, a negative t3 provides a possibility for the occurrence of the triplet superconductivity in 1D system with purely repulsive interactions (U, J > 0). The ground state phase diagram including the insulating and superconducting phases is discussed analytically.
We extend previous studies of the (BCS) canonical approach for the attractive Hubbard model. A derivation of the BCS formulation is presented for both the Hubbard model and a simpler reduced Hamiltonian. Using direct diagonalization, exact one- and two-dimensional solutions for both Hamiltonians are compared to BCS variational calculations. Approximate and exact ground state energies and energy gaps are computed for different electron number systems as well as correlation observables not previously predicted. Reproducing published one-dimensional findings, the BCS approach is an excellent approximation for the Hubbard ground state energy but not the energy gap, a finding that remains true in two dimensions. Propagators and correlators are found more sensitive to wave functions and appreciable differences are computed with the Hubbard model exhibiting a weaker degree of superconductivity than the BCS. Even for weak coupling pronounced differences are found between the BCS and Hubbard on-site correlators. Significantly, in the extreme strong coupling limit the Hubbard model exhibits no dimensional crossover, or density induced transitions, to long-range order in two dimensions. However, for the reduced Hamiltonian the BCS approach is an excellent approximation for all observables in both one and two dimensions.
Abstract The study of ground-state properties of the Fermi-Hubbard model is a long-lasting task in the research of strongly correlated systems, and is crucial for the understanding of notable quantum phenomena including superconductivity and magnetism. Owing to the exponentially growing complexity of the system, a quantitative analysis usually demands high computational cost and is restricted to small samples, especially in two or higher dimensions. Here, we introduce a variational method in the frame of fermionic Gaussian states, and obtain the ground states of one- and two-dimensional attractive Hubbard models via imaginary-time evolution. We calculate the total energy and benchmark the results in a wide range of interaction strength and filling factor with those obtained via exact two-body results, the density matrix renormalization group based on matrix product states (MPS), and projector Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method. For both 1D and 2D cases, the Gaussian variational method presents accurate results for total energy with a maximum systematic error ∼ 4 % in the intermediate interaction region. The accuracy of these results has negligible dependence on the system size. We further calculate the double occupancy and find excellent agreement with MPS and QMC, as well as the experimental results of cold quantum gases in optical lattices. The results suggest that the Gaussian pairing state is a good approximation to the ground states of attractive Hubbard model, in particular in the strong and weak coupling limits. Moreover, we generalize the method to the attractive Hubbard model with a finite spin-polarization, which can be mapped to the repulsive interaction case via particle-hole transformation, and obtain accurate results of ground state energy and double occupancy. Our work demonstrates the ability of the Gaussian variational method to extract ground state properties of strongly correlated many-body systems with negligible computational cost, especially of large size and in higher dimensions.
In this work, we developed the unit step model as an approximate solution to the single-band Hubbard Hamiltonian to solve variationally strongly correlated interacting elections on a two-dimensional (2D) square lattice. We also showed primarily how to derive possible electronic states available for several 2D N x N square lattices, although, with special emphasis on a 2D 5 x 5 square lattice. The results emerging from our present study was compared with the results of Gutzwiller variational approach (GVA) and correlated variational approach (CVA), at the large limit of the Coulomb interaction strength (U/4t).The approximation to the Hubbard Hamiltonian study is actually necessary because of the strong limitation and difficulty pose by the Hubbard Hamiltonian as we move away from finite - size lattices to larger N - dimensional lattices. Thus this work has provided a means of overcoming the finite - size lattice defects as we pass on to a higher dimension. We have shown in this study, that the repulsive Coulomb interaction which in part leads to the strong electronic correlations, would indicate that the two electron system prefer not to condense into s-wave superconducting singlet state (s = 0), at high positive values of the interaction strength. This study reveals that when the Coulomb interaction is zero, that is, for free electron system (non-interacting), the variational parameters which describe the probability distribution of lattice electron system is the same. The spectra intensity increases with increase in the interaction strength and it decreases to zero when the interaction strength is made negatively large. Keywords : unit step Hamiltonian, Hubbard Hamiltonian, 3D cubic lattice, interaction strength, total energy, lattice separation.
Interplay of electron correlation and randomness is studied by using the Anderson-Hubbard model within the Hartree-Fock approximation. Under the coexistence of short-range interaction and diagonal disorder, we obtain the ground-state phase diagram in three dimensions, which includes an antiferromagnetic insulator, an antiferromagnetic metal, a paramagnetic insulator (Anderson-localized insulator) and a paramagnetic metal. Although only the short-range interaction is present in this model, we find unconventional soft gaps in the insulating phases irrespective of electron filling, spatial dimensions and long-range order, where the single-particle density of states (DOS) vanishes with a power-law scaling in one dimension (1D) or even faster in two dimensions (2D) and three dimensions (3D) toward the Fermi energy. We call it soft Hubbard gap. Moreover, exact-diagonalization results in 1D support the formation of the soft Hubbard gap beyond the mean-field level. The formation of the soft Hubbard gap cannot be attributed to a conventional theory by Efros and Shklovskii (ES) owing the emergence of soft gaps to the long-range Coulomb interaction. Indeed, based on a picture of multivalley energy landscape, we propose a phenomenological scaling theory, which predicts a scaling of the DOS in perfect agreement with the numerical results. We further discuss a correction of the scaling of the DOS by the long-range part of the Coulomb interaction, which modifies the scaling of Efros and Shklovskii. Furthermore, explicit formulae for the temperature dependence of the DC resistivity via variable-range hopping under the influence of the soft gaps are derived. Finally, we compare the present theory with experimental results of SrRu_{1-x}Ti_xO_3.