We study the one-dimensional extended Hubbard model with alternating size of the hopping integrals using the density-matrix renormalization group method. We calculate the spin gap, the Tomonaga-Luttinger parameter, and the charge-density-wave order parameter for various dimerizations, interaction strengths, and band fillings. At half band-filling the spin and charge excitations are gapped but these gaps disappear for infinitesimal hole doping. At quarter filling, the umklapp scattering in the half-filled lower Peierls band generates a gap for the charge excitations but the gapless spin excitations can be described in terms of an effective antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model. Beyond a critical strength for the nearest-neighbor interaction, the dimerized extended Hubbard model at quarter filling develops a charge-density-wave ground state. The dimerization and the nearest-neighbor Coulomb interaction strongly reduce the Tomonaga-Luttinger parameter from its value for the bare Hubbard model. We discuss the relevance of our findings for the Bechgaard salts.
Phase diagrams of the one-dimensional extended Hubbard model (including nearest-neighbor interaction
V) at half- and quarter-filling are studied by observing level crossings of excitation spectra using the exact diagonalization. This method is based on the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid theory including logarithmic corrections which stem from the renormalization of the Umklapp- and the backward-scattering effects. Using this approach, the phase boundaries are determined with high accuracy, and then the structure of the phase diagram is clarified. At half-filling, the phase diagram consists of two Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition lines and one Gaussian transition line in the charge sector, and one spin-gap transition line. This structure reflects the $\mathrm{U}(1)\ensuremath{\bigotimes}\mathrm{SU}(2)$ symmetry of the electron system. Near the
U=2V line, the Gaussian and the spin-gap transitions take place independently from the weak- to the intermediate-coupling region, but these two transition lines are coupled in the strong-coupling region. This result demonstrates existence of a tricritical point and a bond-charge-density-wave (BCDW) phase between charge- and spin-density-wave (CDW, SDW) phases. To clarify this mechanism of the transition, we also investigate effect of a correlated hopping term, which plays a role to enlarge BCDW and bond-spin-density-wave (BSDW) phases. At quarter-filling, a similar crossover phenomenon also takes place in the large-
V region involving spin-gap and BKT-type metal-insulator transitions.
By utilizing the twisted boundary conditions in the exact diagonalization method, we investigate the single-particle spectral function of the extended Peierls-Hubbard model at both half-filling and quarter filling. In one-dimensional (1D) interacting systems, the spin-charge separation can typically be identified in the single-particle spectral function by observing the distinct spinon and holon bands. At half filling, starting from the pure 1D Hubbard model with the on-site interaction
U=10, we observe that the band structure indicative of the spin-charge separation gradually transitions to four individual bands as the Peierls instability
δ increases. At
U=10 and
δ=0.2 where the spin-charge separation is still observable, increasing the nearest-neighbor interaction
V can drive the system to a charge-density-wave (CDW) state when
V≳U/2, without the obeservation of spinon and holon bands. At quarter-filling, on the other hand, the ground state of Peierls-Hubbard model manifests an antiferromagnetic Mott insulator in units of dimers. Increasing
U results in only a very small gap in the single-particle spectrum because even for
U=+∞, with the model transforming into a noninteracting half-filled dimerized tight-binding model, its gap determined by the Peierls instability
δ remains small. Conversely, increasing
V can effectively open the single-particle gap and make the spinon and holon bands more prominent.
The Tomonaga-Luttinger parameter K ρ determines the critical behavior in quasi–one-dimensional correlated electron systems, e.g. , the exponent α for the density of states near the Fermi energy. We use the numerical density-matrix renormalization group method to calculate K ρ from the slope of the density-density correlation function in momentum space at zero wave vector. We check the accuracy of our new approach against exact results for the Hubbard and XXZ Heisenberg models. We determine K ρ in the phase diagram of the extended Hubbard model at quarter filling, n c = 1/2, and confirm the bosonization results K ρ = n c 2 = 1/4 on the critical line and K ρ CDW = n c 2 /2 = 1/8 at infinitesimal doping of the charge-density-wave (CDW) insulator for all interaction strengths. The doped CDW insulator exhibits exponents α > 1 only for small doping and strong correlations.
We determine the ground-state phase diagram of the one-dimensional half-filled Hubbard model with on-site (nearest-neighbor) repulsive interaction U (V) and nearest-neighbor hopping t using the density-matrix renormalization group technique. Based on the results of the excitation gaps, Luttinger-liquid exponents, and bond-order-wave (BOW) order parameter, we confirm that the BOW phase appears in a substantial region between the charge-density-wave (CDW) and spin-density-wave phases. Each phase boundary is determined by multiple means and it allows us to make a cross-check on the validity of our estimations. We also find that the BOW-CDW transition changes from continuous to first order at the tricritical point (U(t),V(t)) approximately (5.89 t,3.10 t) and the BOW phase shrinks to zero at the critical end point (U(c),V(c)) approximately (9.25 t,4.76 t).
We study the phase diagram of a one-dimensional extended Hubbard model with antiferromagnetic exchange interaction analytically and numerically. The bosonization and transfer-matrix renormalization group methods are used in the corresponding coupling regimes. At half-filling, the system is a Mott insulator with a finite spin excitation gap if the on-site Coulomb repulsion is fairly smaller than the antiferromagnetic exchange
J. This Mott insulator is characterized by the bond-charge-density-wave order or spontaneously dimerization. In the weak-coupling regime where the spin-charge separation holds approximately, the critical point separating the gapless and gapped spin liquid phases is ${U}_{c}\ensuremath{\sim}J∕2$. However, as
J increases, the spin-charge couplings become important and the critical point
Uc is significantly suppressed and eventually tends to zero as $J\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\ensuremath{\infty}$. Away from half-filling, the charge gap completely collapses but the spin gap persists.
We calculate spin and charge excitation spectra of the one-dimensional (1D) quarter-filled Hubbard model with nearest-neighbor
t and next-nearest-neighbor ${t}^{\ensuremath{'}}$ hopping integrals using the dynamical density-matrix renormalization group technique. We consider a case where
t (>0) is much smaller than ${t}^{\ensuremath{'}}$
(>0). First, we examine the accuracy of our method based on comparison between our result and exact noninteracting spectrum. Next, we investigate the spectra with the on-site Coulomb interaction. We find that the spin and charge excitation spectra are essentially the same as those of the 1D quarter-filled Hubbard (and $t\text{\ensuremath{-}}J$) model for the two 1D chains along the hopping integral ${t}^{\ensuremath{'}}$. However, the hopping integral
t $(<{t}^{\ensuremath{'}})$ plays a crucial role in the short-range correlations and low-energy excitaions; ferromagnetic correlation between electrons on neighboring sites is enhanced and pairing correlation between the electrons is induced. Consequently, a spin-triplet superconducting state may be derived.