Existence of a metallic phase in the charge-density-wave–spin-density-wave crossover region in the 1-D Hubbard-Holstein model at half filling

Abstract

The Holstein–Hubbard model is considered to study the competition between the electron-phonon interaction and the electron-electron interaction in a one-dimensional correlated Fermi system at half-filling. First, a series of canonical transformations that incorporate phonon coherence and correlation effects is performed and then the transformed Hamiltonian is averaged with respect to a zero-phonon state. The resulting effective electronic Hamiltonian is finally solved exactly by the Bethe-ansatz technique. It is shown that the present method suggests the existence of a wider intermediate metallic phase at the SDW-CDW crossover region than the one predicted by the simple variational method of Takada and Chatterjee. The presence of this metallic phase is indeed a favorable situation from the point of view of high temperature superconductivity.