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Spin-Disordered Ground State For A Nearly Half-Filled Hubbard Model, S. E. Barnes
Spin-Disordered Ground State For A Nearly Half-Filled Hubbard Model, S. E. Barnes
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Following Nagaoka, the ground state of the large-U nearly half-filled Hubbard model is ‘‘ferromagnetic.’’ However, because of the anisotropic exchange energy JA, the physical Nagaoka ground state is nondegenerate and comprises a totally disordered spin state, i.e., a linear combination of all possible spin arrangements. For this ground state the susceptibility is Pauli-like but of a magnitude associated with a narrow band of width ∼JA while the holons, i.e., the charge excitations, correspond to spinless fermions with a band of width 2zt. Associated with the spinon sector are very poorly defined spin waves, i.e., bosons, with a …