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Stability of ferromagnetism in the Hubbard model on the kagome lattice
Akinori Tanaka1, Hiromitsu Ueda
1Department of Applied Quantum Physics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan.
Abstract:
The Hubbard model on the kagome lattice has highly degenerate ground states (the flat lowest band) in the corresponding single-electron problem and exhibits the so-called flat-band ferromagnetism in the many-electron ground states as was found by Mielke [J. Phys. A 24, L73 (1991)]]. Here we study the model obtained by adding extra hopping terms to the above model. The lowest single-electron band becomes dispersive, and there is no band gap between the lowest band and the other band. We prove that, at half filling of the lowest band, the ground states of this perturbed model remain saturated ferromagnetic if the lowest band is nearly flat.
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