We propose two-leg fermion-ladder models for the SU (2|2) and SU (4) cases. The former is exactly the extended Hubbard model proposed by Essler, Korepin and Schoutens. The latter is a new model also with -pairing symmetry which is important for superconductivity. This new extension of the Hubbard model can be solved exactly.
Asymmetric two-leg Hubbard ladders with different on-site interactions Uy and hoppings ty on each leg are investigated using the density-matrix renormalization group method and exact diagonalizations. The pairing found in symmetric ladders is robust against the introduction of the leg asymmetry. When studying pairing, one-band Hubbard ladder models are better described as one-dimensional correlated two-band models than as sublattices of higher-dimensional systems. The asymmetric Hubbard ladder provides us with a simple model for studying pairing in the crossover regime between charge-transfer and Mott insulators.
A two-step linearization scheme is proposed to approach the 2D extended Hubbard model: (i) by a chain-cluster linearization, the model is first mapped onto a self-consistent 1D problem for a modified extended Hubbard model; (ii) a further linearization is then performed in the proximity of the U(2|2)-supersymmetric model introduced by Essler, Korepin and Schoutens (EKS). The resulting Hamiltonian is shown to be equivalent to a 1D EKS Hamiltonian whose coefficients have to be determined self-consistently. The self-consistency equations can be obtained thanks to the exact solvability of the EKS model.
Here we examine various aspects of the pairing mechanism for two models, the two-dimensional and two-leg ladder Hubbard models. Both of these models exhibit pairing correlations with d_{x^{2}-y^{2}} symmetry. However, the undoped insulating states of these two systems are different with the two-dimensional lattice characterized by a ground state with long-range antiferromagnetic order and the two-leg ladder having a spin gap in its ground state. Our aim is to gain a better understanding of the underlying pairing mechanism which causes d_{x^{2}-y^{2}} pairing in these two models.
In order to shed light whether the `even-odd conjecture' (even numbers of legs will superconduct accompanied by a spin gap while odd ones do not) for correlated electrons in ladder systems, the pairing correlation is studied for the Hubbard model on a two- and three-leg ladders. We have employed both the weak-coupling renormalization group and the quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method for strong interactions. For the two-leg Hubbard ladder, a systematic QMC (with a controlled level spacings) has detected an enhanced pairing correlation, which is consistent with the weak-coupling prediction. We also calculate the correlation functions in the three-leg Hubbard ladder and show that the weak-coupling study predicts the dominant superconductivity, which refutes the naive even-odd conjecture. A crucial point is a spin gap for only some of the multiple spin modes is enough to make the ladder superconduct with a pairing symmetry (d-like here) compatible with the gapped mode. A QMC study for the three-leg ladder endorses the enhanced pairing correlation.
For a simple Hubbard model, using a particle-particle pairing operator η and a particle-hole pairing operator ζ, it is shown that one can write down two commuting sets of angular momenta operators J and J′, both of which commute with the Hamiltonian. These considerations allow the introduction of quantum numbers j and j′ and lead to the fact that the system has SO 4=( SU 2× SU 2)/Z2 symmetry, j is related to the existence of superconductivity for a state and j′ to its magnetic properties.
For a simple Hubbard model, using a particle-particle pairing operator η and a particle-hole pairing operator ζ, it is shown that one can write down two commuting sets of angular momenta operators J and J′, both of which commute with the Hamiltonian. These considerations allow the introduction of quantum numbers j and j′, and lead to the fact that the system has SO 4 = ( SU 2 × SU 2)/ Z 2 symmetry. j is related to the existence of superconductivity for a state and j′ to its magnetic properties.