Exact Spectral Functions of a Non Fermi Liquid in 1 Dimension

We study the exact one electron propagator and spectral function of a solvable model of interacting electrons due to Schulz and Shastry. The solution previously found for the energies and wave functions is extended to give the spectral functions, which turn out to be computable, interesting and non trivial. They provide one of the few examples of cases where the spectral functions are known asymptotically as well as exactly.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figures, revte

Spectral microscopic mechanisms and quantum phase transitions in a 1D correlated problem

In this paper we study the dominant microscopic processes that generate nearly the whole one-electron removal and addition spectral weight of the one-dimensional Hubbard model for all values of the on-site repulsion $U$. We find that for the doped Mott-Hubbard insulator there is a competition between the microscopic processes that generate the one-electron upper-Hubbard band spectral-weight distributions of the Mott-Hubbard insulating phase and finite-doping-concentration metallic phase, respectively. The spectral-weight distributions generated by the non-perturbative processes studied here are shown elsewhere to agree quantitatively for the whole momentum and energy bandwidth with the peak dispersions observed by angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy in quasi-one-dimensional compounds.Comment: 18 pages, 2 figure

Negative thermal expansion in the plateau state of a magnetically-frustrated spinel

We report on negative thermal expansion (NTE) in the high-field, half-magnetization plateau phase of the frustrated magnetic insulator CdCr2O4. Using dilatometry, we precisely map the phase diagram at fields of up to 30T, and identify a strong NTE associated with the collinear half-magnetization plateau for B > 27T. The resulting phase diagram is compared with a microscopic theory for spin-lattice coupling, and the origin of the NTE is identified as a large negative change in magnetization with temperature, coming from a nearly-localised band of spin excitations in the plateau phase. These results provide useful guidelines for the discovery of new NTE materials.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figure

Mixed-valence state in Yb2CuGe6

We present here temperature dependent X-ray photoemission measurements on polycrystalline Yb2CuGe6. The analysis of these data shows the change in the effective valence, determined directly from the 4f intensity ratio, as a function of temperature

Superconductivity Driven by Chain Coupling and Electronic Correlations

We present an analysis of a system of weakly coupled Hubbard chains based on combining an exact study of spectral functions of the uncoupled chain system with a renormalization group method for the coupled chains. For low values of the onsite repulsion $U$ and of the doping $\delta$, the leading instability is towards a superconducting state. The process includes excited states above a small correlation pseudogap. Similar features appear in extended Hubbard models in the vicinity of commensurate fillings. Our theoretical predictions are consistent with the phase diagram observed in the (TMTTF)$_2$X and (TMTSF)$_2$X series of organic compounds.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figure

spl(2,1) dynamical supersymmetry and suppression of ferromagnetism in flat band double-exchange models

The low energy spectrum of the ferromagnetic Kondo lattice model on a N-site complete graph extended with on-site repulsion is obtained from the underlying spl(2,1) algebra properties in the strong coupling limit. The ferromagnetic ground state is realized for 1 and N+1 electrons only. We identify the large density of states to be responsible for the suppression of the ferromagnetic state and argue that a similar situation is encountered in the Kagome, pyrochlore, and other lattices with flat bands in their one-particle density of states.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figur

Electronic structure of CePtIn and LaPtIn compounds

The electronic structure of the ternary RPtIn (R = La, Ce) compounds, which crystallize in the hexagonal ZrNiAl-type structure, was studied by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy measurements and calculation using the ab initio methods (linear mu n-tin orbital in the atomic sphere approximation, full potential linear mu n-tin orbital, full potential linear orbital). The results showed that the valence band in these compounds is formed by the Pt 5d and In 5s and 5p states. The band calculations with spin orbit coupling have shown that the Ce 4f peaks consist of two peaks above the Fermi level that correspond to the Ce 4f7=2 and 4f5=2 doublet and wide peaks corresponding to the La 4f states. The analysis of Ce 3d spectra on the basis of the Gunnarsson Schönhammer model gives hybridization of 4f orbitals with the conduction electron band equal to 170 meV

Electronic structure of CePtIn and LaPtIn compounds

The electronic structure of the ternary RPtIn (R = La, Ce) compounds, which crystallize in the hexagonal ZrNiAl-type structure, was studied by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy measurements and calculation using the ab initio methods (linear mu n-tin orbital in the atomic sphere approximation, full potential linear mu n-tin orbital, full potential linear orbital). The results showed that the valence band in these compounds is formed by the Pt 5d and In 5s and 5p states. The band calculations with spin orbit coupling have shown that the Ce 4f peaks consist of two peaks above the Fermi level that correspond to the Ce 4f7=2 and 4f5=2 doublet and wide peaks corresponding to the La 4f states. The analysis of Ce 3d spectra on the basis of the Gunnarsson Schönhammer model gives hybridization of 4f orbitals with the conduction electron band equal to 170 meV

Susceptibility of the one-dimensional, dimerized Hubbard model

We show that the zero temperature susceptibility of the one-dimensional, dimerized Hubbard model at quarter-filling can be accurately determined on the basis of exact diagonalization of small clusters. The best procedure is to perform a finite-size scaling of the spin velocity $u_\sigma$, and to calculate the susceptibility from the Luttinger liquid relation $\chi=2/\pi u_\sigma$. We show that these results are reliable by comparing them with the analytical results that can be obtained in the weak and strong coupling limits. We have also used quantum Monte Carlo simulations to calculate the temperature dependence of the susceptibility for parameters that should be relevant to the Bechgaard salts. This shows that, used together, these numerical techniques are able to give precise estimates of the low temperature susceptibility of realistic one-dimensional models of correlated electrons.Comment: 10 pages, latex, figures available from the authors. To appear in Phys. Rev. B, Rapid Comm

Dynamical density-density correlations in one-dimensional Mott insulators

The dynamical density-density correlation function is calculated for the one-dimensional, half-filled Hubbard model extended with nearest neighbor repulsion using the Lanczos algorithm for finite size systems and analytically for large on site repulsion compared to hopping amplitudes. At the zone boundary an excitonic feature exists for any finite nearest neighbor repulsion and exhausts most of the spectral weight, even for parameters where no exciton is visible at zero momentum.Comment: 5 pages, REVTeX, epsf, 3 postscript figure