Some properties of two dimensional extended repulsive Hubbard model with intersite magnetic interactions - a Monte Carlo study

TL;DR

This study uses Monte Carlo simulations to explore the phase diagram of a two-dimensional extended Hubbard model with magnetic interactions, revealing phases like antiferromagnetic, non-ordered, and phase separation, with both first and second-order transitions.

Contribution

It provides the first detailed Monte Carlo analysis of the 2D extended Hubbard model with intersite magnetic interactions, mapping its phase diagram and identifying tricritical points.

Findings

Identification of antiferromagnetic, non-ordered, and phase-separated regions.

Observation of both first-order and second-order phase transitions.

Presence of a tricritical point in the phase diagram.

Abstract

In this paper the two dimensional extended Hubbard model with intersite magnetic Ising-like interaction in the atomic limit is analyzed by means of the classical Monte Carlo method in the grand canonical ensemble. Such an effective simple model could describe behavior of insulating (anti)ferromagnets. In the model considered the Coulomb interaction ($U$) is on-site and the magnetic interactions in $z$-direction ($J>0$, antiferromagnetic) are restricted to nearest-neighbors. Simulations of the model have been performed on a square lattice consisting of $N=L\times L=400$ sites ($L=20$) in order to obtain the full phase diagram for $U/(4J)=1$. Results obtained for on-site repulsion ($U>0$) show that, apart from homogeneous non-ordered (NO) and ordered magnetic (antiferromagnetic, AF) phases, there is also a region of phase separation (PS: AF/NO) occurrence. We present a phase diagram as well as some thermodynamic properties of the model for the case of $U/(4J)=1$ (and arbitrary chemical potential and arbitrary electron concentration). The AF-NO transition can be second-order as well as first-order and the tricritical point occurs on the diagram.