English

On the flux phase conjecture at half-filling: an improved proof

Condensed Matter 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

We present a simplification of Lieb's proof of the flux phase conjecture for interacting fermion systems -- such as the Hubbard model --, at half filling on a general class of graphs. The main ingredient is a procedure which transforms a class of fermionic Hamiltonians into reflection positive form. The method can also be applied to other problems, which we briefly illustrate with two examples concerning the tVt-V model and an extended Falicov-Kimball model.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9604043,
  title  = {On the flux phase conjecture at half-filling: an improved proof},
  author = {Nicolas Macris and Bruno Nachtergaele},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9604043},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

23 pages, Latex, uses epsf.sty to include 3 eps figures, to appear in J. Stat. Phys., Dec. 1996