The Hubbard Model: A Computer Lab in the Strong Coupling Region

Abstract: A challenge - and opportunity - is offered to the Hubbard Model community of solutions extant for the strong coupling region. A rigorous and quantitatively demanding test - a Computer Lab - is presented based on certain exact results for the strong coupling limit derived in a companion paper. The test offers rich insights into the essential physics of the model, specifically the quasiparticle energy and width of the spectral weight function in the lower Hubbard band. The width of the spectral weight function, related to electron scattering, is large and has a strong momentum dependence, even for infinite coupling. The test is applied to mean field solutions as well as some one dimensional results. In each case, substantial problems are exposed. The method is also used to determine a "best" (i.e. moment preserving) solution, subject to only one assumption of a single dominant peak for the lower Hubbard band spectral weight function.