Strong Coupling Expansion of the Extended Hubbard Model with Spin-Orbit Coupling

Abstract

We study the strong coupling limit of the extended Hubbard model in two dimensions. The model consists of hopping, on-site interaction, nearest-neighbor interaction, spin-orbit coupling and Zeeman spin splitting. While the study of this model is motivated by a search for topological phases and in particular a topological superconductor, the methodology we develop may be useful for a variety of systems. We begin our treatment with a canonical transformation of the Hamiltonian to an effective model which is appropriate when the (quartic) interaction terms are larger than the (quadratic) kinetic and spin-orbit coupling terms. We proceed by analyzing the strong coupling model variationally. Since we are mostly interested in a superconducting phase we use a Gutzwiller projected BCS wavefunction as our variational state. To continue analytically we employ the Gutzwiller approximation and compare the calculated energy with Monte-Carlo calculations. Finally we determine the topology of the ground state and map out the topology phase diagram.

17 pages, 7 figures

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