The ground state of the Penson-Kolb-Hubbard model

Abstract

The ground state of the one-dimensional half-filled Penson-Kolb-Hubbard model (with competing single-particle and pair hoppings in the presence of on-site Coulomb repulsion) has been investigated by a real space renormalization group method. The ground state energy, energy gap, local moment and several correlation functions are studied to obtain the phase diagram. The phase diagram consists of a spin density wave (SDW) state, a superconducting (SC) phase and a quasi-metallic phase dominated by short range SC correlations for positive values of the pair hopping amplitude; when this amplitude is negative, the phase diagram contains a near-metallic commensurate charge density wave and an SC phase of pairs with centre-of-mass momentum q= pi apart from an SDW phase.