Paper: cond-mat/9311033 The Hubbard model of interacting electrons, like the Ising model of spin-spin interactions, is the simplest possible model displaying many ``real world'' features, but it is much more difficult to analyze qualitatively than the Ising model. After a third of a century of research, we are still not sure about many of its basic properties. This mini-review will explore what is known rigorously about the model and it will attempt to describe some open problems that are possibly within the range of rigorous mathematical analysis.
Paper: cond-mat/9311033 The Hubbard model of interacting electrons, like the Ising model of spin-spin interactions, is the simplest possible model displaying many ``real world'' features, but it is much more difficult to analyze qualitatively than the Ising model. After a third of a century of research, we are still not sure about many of its basic properties. This mini-review will explore what is known rigorously about the model and it will attempt to describe some open problems that are possibly within the range of rigorous mathematical analysis.
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 Hubbard model is the simplest conceivable example of interacting quantum- mechanical particles — yet it seems to have real world applications. Like the Ising model, it is “merely” a discrete lattice model, but despite four decades of research it is far from being understood rigorously; or even heuristically in many respects. The most amenable and symmetric situation is the “half-filled band”, in which the number of particles equals the number of vertices in the lattice. Two conjectures about the model at half-filling have very recently been proved and are discussed here. The first can be found in [LN] and the second in [LE].
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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.
The Hubbard model is the simplest model of interacting fermions on a lattice and is of similar importance to correlated electron physics as the Ising model is to statistical mechanics or the fruit fly to biomedical science. Despite its simplicity, the model exhibits an incredible wealth of phases, phase transitions, and exotic correlation phenomena. Although analytical methods have provided a qualitative description of the model in certain limits, numerical tools have shown impressive progress in achieving quantitative accurate results over the past several years. This article gives an introduction to the model, motivates common questions, and illustrates the progress that has been achieved over recent years in revealing various aspects of the correlation physics of the model.