Photoelectron spectroscopy of strongly correlated systems: Effects of nonlocal interactions.

Abstract

We present a theoretical description of the one-particle excitation spectra in strongly correlated systems with nonlocal interactions. Using exact diagonalization techniques, photoemission and inverse photoemission spectra of an extended Hubbard model with an intersite Coulomb interaction are calculated. The single-particle and many-body aspects are treated on an equal footing. The hopping and interaction parameters are adjusted to simulate various Hubbard and charge-transfer systems. In contrast to normal expectations, the intersite interaction is found to suppress the spectral features driven by the on-site interaction, leading to a narrowing in the overall spectral distribution. It also produces qualitatively new behavior in the spin polarization of the spectra and in the doping dependence of the low-energy spectral weight. The degree of sensitivity of the spectra to the single-particle and interaction parameters is systematically investigated. General implications of the calculated results for strongly correlated systems are discussed.