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Numerical Studies of the two-leg Hubbard ladder
The Hubbard model on a two-leg ladder structure has been studied by a
combination of series expansions at T=0 and the density-matrix renormalization
group. We report results for the ground state energy and spin-gap
at half-filling, as well as dispersion curves for one and two-hole
excitations. For small both and show a dramatic drop near
, which becomes more gradual for larger . This
represents a crossover from a "band insulator" phase to a strongly correlated
spin liquid. The lowest-lying two-hole state rapidly becomes strongly bound as
increases, indicating the possibility that phase separation may
occur. The various features are collected in a "phase diagram" for the model.Comment: 10 figures, revte
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