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Green’s-function Monte Carlo for lattice fermions: Application to the t − J model

2000; American Physical Society; Volume: 61; Issue: 17 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physrevb.61.11787

1095-3795

C. Stephen Hellberg, Efstratios Manousakis,

Advanced Condensed Matter Physics

We develop a general numerical method to study the zero-temperature properties of strongly correlated electron models on large lattices. The technique, which resembles Green's-function Monte Carlo, projects the ground-state component from a trial wave function with no approximations. We use this method to determine the phase diagram of the two-dimensional $t\ensuremath{-}J$ model, using the Maxwell construction to investigate electronic phase separation. The shell effects of fermions on finite-sized periodic lattices are minimized by keeping the number of electrons fixed at a closed-shell configuration and varying the size of the lattice. Results obtained for various electron numbers corresponding to different closed shells indicate that the finite-size effects in our calculation are small. For any value of interaction strength, we find that there is always a value of the electron density above which the system can lower its energy by forming a two-component phase separated state. Our results are compared with other calculations on the $t\ensuremath{-}J$ model. We find that the most accurate results are consistent with phase separation at all interaction strengths.