Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2001-05-03
Nucl. Phys. B 618, 617 (2001)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
20 pages RevTex, 10 figures
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0550-3213(01)00465-5
We describe a new path integral approach to strongly correlated fermion systems, considering the Hubbard model as a specific example. Our approach is based on the introduction of spin-particle-hole coherent states which generalize the spin-1/2 coherent states by allowing the creation of a hole or an additional particle. The action of the fermion system $S[\gamma^*,\gamma;{\bf\Omega}]$ can be expressed as a function of two Grassmann variables ($\gamma_\uparrow$,$\gamma_\downarrow$) describing particles propagating in the lower and upper Hubbard bands, and a unit vector field ${\bf\Omega}$ whose dynamics arises from spin fluctuations. In the strong correlation limit, $S[\gamma^*,\gamma;{\bf\Omega}]$ can be truncated to quartic order in the fermionic fields and used as the starting point of a strong-coupling diagrammatic expansion in $t/U$ ($t$ being the intersite hopping amplitude and $U$ the on-site Coulomb repulsion). We discuss possible applications of this formalism and its connection to the t-J model and the spin-fermion model.
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