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arXiv:cond-mat/0008099 · Physical Review Letters

Comment on “Confinement of Slave Particles in U(1) Gauge Theories of Strongly Interacting Electrons”

Ikuo Ichinose, Tetsuo Matsui

Published Jan 29, 2001• 19 citations
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Abstract

In a recent Letter, Nayak argued that slave partices are always confined in gauge theories of strongly-correlated electron systems like the t-J model. The argument mostly relies on Elitzur's theorem and the fact that the effective gauge theory under discussion is at infinite coupling. On the other hand, in the previous papers we studied dynamics of the gauge theory of the t-J model showing that the slave particles are in the Coulomb phase below certain critical temperature T{CSS} that depends on hole doping. We comment on the discrepancy between the results in two papers.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.86.942

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In a recent Letter, Nayak argued that slave partices are always confined in gauge theories of strongly-correlated electron systems like the t-J model. The argument mostly relies on Elitzur's theorem and the fact that the effective gauge theory under discussion is at infinite coupling. On the other hand, in the previous papers we studied dynamics of the gauge theory of the t-J model showing that the slave particles are in the Coulomb phase below certain critical temperature T{CSS} that depends on hole doping. We comment on the discrepancy between the results in two papers.
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We present a preliminary discussion on the use of supersymmetric representation of the Hubbard operator which unifies the slave boson and slave fermion representations into a single U(1) × SU(1|1) gauge theory to treat the physics of the infinite U Hubbard model. By looking for solutions to the Hamiltonian in which the spins can exist as both condensed ordered moments and as mobile charged carriers, we examine the possibility of a Nagaoka ferromagnetic phase at finite doping with a quantum critical point into the paramagnetic phase. Key words: Hubbard model, Supersymmetry, Ferromagnetism The infinite U Hubbard model[1] is a prototype model for strongly correlated electron systems. Interest in this venerable model has grown in recent times because of its link with one of the basic models of high temperature superconductivity, the t − J model.[2] The infinite U Hubbard model corresponds to the t − J model without antiferromagnetic interactions (J → 0). Despite the absence of antiferromagnetic interactions, evidence from finite temperature Lanzcos studies[3] suggests that many of high temperature properties associated with the cuprate metals are already present in the infinite U Hubbard model. The U = ∞ Hubbard hamiltonian is written HK = − t