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A consistent statistical treatment of the renormalized mean-field t-J model

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2015-05-14 v2 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

A variational treatment of the Gutzwiller - renormalized t-J Hamiltonian combined with the mean-field (MF) approximation is proposed, with a simultaneous inclusion of additional consistency conditions. Those conditions guarantee that the averages calculated variationally represent true mean-field expectation values. This is not ensured a priori when the effective Hamiltonian contains renormalization factors which depend on the mean-field averages. A comparison with previous mean-field treatments is made for both superconducting (d-RVB) and normal states and encompasses calculations of both the superconducting gap and the renormalized hopping amplitudes, as well as the electronic structure. The C4vC_{4v}-symmetry breaking in the normal phase - the Pomeranchuk instability (PI) - is also analyzed.

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@article{arxiv.0908.4411,
  title  = {A consistent statistical treatment of the renormalized mean-field t-J model},
  author = {Jakub Jȩdrak and Jozef Spałek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.4411},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

5 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables. Minor typos have been fixed to make this version compatible with that published in Phys. Rev. B.