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arXiv:cond-mat/9801135 · Physical review. B, Condensed matter

Unrestricted slave-boson mean-field approximation for the two-dimensional Hubbard model

G. Seibold, E. Sigmund, V. Hizhnyakov

Published Mar 15, 1998• 61 citations
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Abstract

The Kotliar-Ruckenstein slave-boson scheme is used to allow for an unrestricted variation of the bosonic and fermionic fields on the saddle-point level. Various inhomogeneous solutions, such as spin polarons and domain walls, are discussed within the two-dimensional Hubbard model and compared with results of unrestricted Hartree-Fock (HF) calculations. We find that the present approach drastically reduces the polarization of these states and leads to increased delocalized wave functions as compared to the HF model. The interaction between two spin polarons turns out to be attractive over a wide range of the on-site repulsion $U$. In addition we obtain the crossover from vertical to diagonal domain walls at a higher value of $U$ than predicted by HF.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.57.6937

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We revisit the Kotliar-Ruckenstein (KR) slave boson saddle point evaluation for a two-site correlated electron model. As the model can be solved analytically, it is possible to compare the KR saddle point results with the exact many-particle levels. The considered two-site cluster mimics an infinite-UUU single-impurity Anderson model with a nearest-neighbor Coulomb interaction: one site is strongly correlated with an infinite local Coulomb repulsion, which hybridizes with the second site, on which the local Coulomb repulsion vanishes. Making use of the flexibility of the representation, we introduce appropriate weight factors in the KR saddle point scheme. Ground-state and all excitation levels agree with the exact diagonalization results. Thermodynamics and correlation functions may be recovered in a suitably renormalized saddle point evaluation.
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The slave-boson mean-field method is used to study the two-dimensional Hubbard model. A magnetic phase diagram allowing for paramagnetism, weak and strong ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism is constructed and compared to the corresponding phase diagram using the Hartree-Fock approximation (HFA). Magnetically ordered regions are reduced by a factor of about three along both the t/U and density axes compared to the HFA. Using the spin-rotation-invariant formulation of the slave-boson method the helicity modulus is computed and for half filling is found practically to coincide with that found using variational Monte Carlo calculations with the Gutzwiller wave function. Off half filling the results can be used to compare with quantum Monte Carlo calculations of the effective hopping parameter. Contrary to the case of half filling, the slave-boson approach is seen to greatly improve the results of the HFA when off half filling.