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Inverse photoemission in strongly correlated electron systems
Based on exact results for small clusters of 2D t-J model we demonstrate the
existence of several distinct `channels' in its inverse photoemission (IPES)
spectrum. Hole-like quasiparticles can either be annihilated completely, or
leave behind a variable number of spin excitations, which formed the `dressing
cloud' of the annihilated hole. In the physical parameter regime the latter
processes carry the bulk of IPES weight and although the Fermi surface takes
the form of hole pockets, the distribution of spectal weight including these
`magnon-bands' in the IPES spectrum is reminiscent of free electrons. The
emerging scenario for Fermiology and spectral weight distribution is shown to
be consistent with photoemission, inverse photemission and de Haas--van Alphen
experiments on cuprate superconductors.Comment: Revtex file, 4 PRB pages + three figures appended as uu-encoded
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Landau mapping and Fermi liquid parameters of the 2D t-J model
We study the momentum distribution function n(k) in the 2D t-J model on small
clusters by exact diagonalization. We show that n(k) can be decomposed
systematically into two components with Bosonic and Fermionic doping
dependence. The Bosonic component originates from the incoherent motion of
holes and has no significance for the low energy physics. For the Fermionic
component we exlicitely perform the one-to-one Landau mapping between the low
lying eigenstates of the t-J model clusters and those of an equivalent system
of spin-1/2 quasiparticles. This mapping allows to extract the quasiparticle
dispersion, statistics, and Landau parameters. The results show conclusively
that the 2D t-J model for small doping is a Fermi liquid with a `small' Fermi
surface and a moderately strong attractive interaction between the
quasiparticles.Comment: Revtex file, 5 pages with 5 embedded eps-files, hardcopies of figures
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Spectral density for a hole in an antiferromagnetic stripe phase
Using variational trial wave function based on the string picture we study
the motion of a single mobile hole in the stripe phase of the doped
antiferromagnet. The holes within the stripes are taken to be static, the
undoped antiferromagnetic domains in between the hole stripes are assumed to
have alternating staggered magnetization, as is suggested by neutron scattering
experiments. The system is described by the t-t'-t''-J model with realistic
parameters and we compute the single particle spectral density.Comment: RevTex-file, 9 PRB pages with 15 .eps and .gif files. To appear in
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Validity of the rigid band picture for the t-J model
We present an exact diagonalization study of the doping dependence of the
single particle Green's function in 16, 18 and 20 site clusters of t-J model.
We find evidence for rigid-band behaviour starting from the half-filled case:
upon doping, the topmost states of the quasiparticle band observed in the
photoemisson spectrum at half-filling cross the chemical potential and reappear
as the lowermost states of the inverse photoemission spectrum. Features in the
inverse photoemission spectra which are inconsistent with rigid-band behaviour
are shown to originate from the nontrivial point group symmetry of the ground
state with two holes, which enforces different selection rules than at
half-filling. Deviations from rigid band behaviour which lead to the formation
of the `large Fermi surface' in the momentum distribution occur only at
energies far from the chemical potential. A Luttinger Fermi surface and a
nearest neighbor hopping band do not exist.Comment: Remarks: Revtex file + 7 figures attached as compressed postscript
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Hubbard model versus t-J model: The one-particle spectrum
The origin of the apparent discrepancies between the one-particle spectra of
the Hubbard and t-J models is revealed: Wavefunction corrections, in addition
to the three-site terms, should supplement the bare t-J. In this way a
quantitative agreement between the two models is obtained, even for the
intermediate- values appropriate for the high-Tc cuprate superconductors.
Numerical results for clusters of up to 20 sites are presented. The momentum
dependence of the observed intensities in the photoemission spectra of
Sr2CuO2Cl2 are well described by this complete strong-coupling approach.Comment: 4 two-column RevTeX pages, including 4 Postscript figures. Uses epsf.
Accepted for publication in Physical Review B, Rapid Communicatio
Excitation spectrum of the homogeneous spin liquid
We discuss the excitation spectrum of a disordered, isotropic and
translationally invariant spin state in the 2D Heisenberg antiferromagnet. The
starting point is the nearest-neighbor RVB state which plays the role of the
vacuum of the theory, in a similar sense as the Neel state is the vacuum for
antiferromagnetic spin wave theory. We discuss the elementary excitations of
this state and show that these are not Fermionic spin-1/2 `spinons' but spin-1
excited dimers which must be modeled by bond Bosons. We derive an effective
Hamiltonian describing the excited dimers which is formally analogous to spin
wave theory. Condensation of the bond-Bosons at zero temperature into the state
with momentum (pi,pi) is shown to be equivalent to antiferromagnetic ordering.
The latter is a key ingredient for a microscopic interpretation of Zhang's
SO(5) theory of cuprate superconductivityComment: RevTex-file, 16 PRB pages with 13 embedded eps figures. Hardcopies of
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Spin bags in the doped t-J model
We present a nonperturbative method for deriving a quasiparticle description
of the low-energy excitations in the t-J model for strongly correlated
electrons. Using the exact diagonalization technique we evaluated exactly the
spectral functions of composite operators which describe an electron or hole
dressed by antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations as expected in the string or
spin bag picture. For hole doping up to , use of the composite operators
leads to a drastic simplification of the single particle spectral function: at
half-filling it takes free-particle form, for the doped case it resembles a
system of weakly interacting Fermions corresponding to the doped holes. We
conclude that for all doping levels under study, the elementary electronic
excitations next to the Fermi level are adequately described by the
antiferromagnetic spin fluctuation picture and show that the dressing of the
holes leads to formation of a bound state with d(x^2-y^2) symmetry.Comment: Remarks: Revtex file + 4 figures attached as compressed postscript
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Anomalous low doping phase of the Hubbard model
We present results of a systematic Quantum-Monte-Carlo study for the
single-band Hubbard model. Thereby we evaluated single-particle spectra (PES &
IPES), two-particle spectra (spin & density correlation functions), and the
dynamical correlation function of suitably defined diagnostic operators, all as
a function of temperature and hole doping. The results allow to identify
different physical regimes. Near half-filling we find an anomalous `Hubbard-I
phase', where the band structure is, up to some minor modifications, consistent
with the Hubbard-I predictions. At lower temperatures, where the spin response
becomes sharp, additional dispersionless `bands' emerge due to the dressing of
electrons/holes with spin excitatons. We present a simple phenomenological fit
which reproduces the band structure of the insulator quantitatively. The Fermi
surface volume in the low doping phase, as derived from the single-particle
spectral function, is not consistent with the Luttinger theorem, but
qualitatively in agreement with the predictions of the Hubbard-I approximation.
The anomalous phase extends up to a hole concentration of 15%, i.e. the
underdoped region in the phase diagram of high-T_c superconductors. We also
investigate the nature of the magnetic ordering transition in the single
particle spectra. We show that the transition to an SDW-like band structure is
not accomplished by the formation of any resolvable `precursor bands', but
rather by a (spectroscopically invisible) band of spin 3/2 quasiparticles. We
discuss implications for the `remnant Fermi surface' in insulating cuprate
compounds and the shadow bands in the doped materials.Comment: RevTex-file, 20 PRB pages, 16 figures included partially as gif. A
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Finite temperature properties of the 2D Kondo lattice model
Using recently developed Lanczos technique we study finite-temperature
properties of the 2D Kondo lattice model at various fillings of the conduction
band. At half filling the quasiparticle gap governs physical properties of the
chemical potential and the charge susceptibility at small temperatures. In the
intermediate coupling regime quasiparticle gap scales approximately linearly
with Kondo coupling. Temperature dependence of the spin susceptibility reveals
the existence of two different temperature scales. A spin gap in the
intermediate regime leads to exponential drop of the spin susceptibility at low
temperatures. Unusual scaling of spin susceptibility is found for temperatures
above 0.6 J. Charge susceptibility at finite doping reveals existence of heavy
quasiparticles. A new low energy scale is found at finite doping.Comment: REVTeX, 7 pages, 7 figure
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