arXiv · 1603.04239
Circulating current in 1D Hubbard rings with long-range hopping: Comparison between exact diagonalization method and mean-field approach
Abstract
The interplay between Hubbard interaction, long-range hopping and disorder on persistent current in a mesoscopic one-dimensional conducting ring threaded by a magnetic flux $ϕ$ is analyzed in detail. Two different methods, exact numerical diagonalization and Hartree-Fock mean field theory, are used to obtain numerical results from the many-body Hamiltonian. The current in a disordered ring gets enhanced as a result of electronic correlation and it becomes more significant when contributions from higher order hoppings, even if they are too small compared to nearest-neighbor hopping, are taken into account. Certainly this can be an interesting observation in the era of long-standing controversy between theoretical and experimental results of persistent current amplitudes. Along with these we also find half-flux quantum periodic current for some typical electron fillings and kink-like structures at different magnetic fluxes apart from $ϕ=0$ and $\pm ϕ_0/2$. The scaling behavior of current is also discussed for the sake of completeness of our present analysis.
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Madhumita Saha, Santanu K. Maiti. 2016-05-27. Circulating current in 1D Hubbard rings with long-range hopping: Comparison between exact diagonalization method and mean-field approach. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physe.2016.05.042
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