A hybrid lattice-statistical model on doubly decorated planar lattices, which have localized Ising spins at their nodal lattice sites and two itinerant electrons at each pair of decorating sites, is exactly solved by the use of a generalized decoration-iteration transformation. Our main attention is focused on an influence of the on-site Coulomb repulsion on ground-state properties and critical behavior of the investigated system.
IntroductionExactly soluble lattice-statistical models attract scientific interest as they offer a valuable insight into diverse aspects of cooperative phenomena [1]. The mapping technique based on generalized algebraic transformations [2] belongs to the simplest mathematical methods, which allow us to obtain the exact solution for various statistical models. Recently, this approach has been applied to an interesting diamond-chain model of interacting spin-electron system [3]. This motivated us to start studying a similar spin-electron system on doubly decorated two-dimensional (2D) lattices in order to provide a deeper insight into how the mobile electrons influence their magnetic properties [4]. The investigated model system might provide guidance on a magnetic behavior of magnetic metals such as SrCo 6 O 11 [5], which contain both localized spins and itinerant electrons.2. Model and its exact solution Consider a hybrid lattice-statistical model of interacting spin-electron system on doubly decorated 2D lattices (see Fig. 1 in Ref. [4]), which have one localized Ising spin at each nodal lattice site and two delocalized mobile electrons at each couple of decorating sites. The total Hamiltonian of the model can be written as a sum over bond HamiltoniansĤ = kĤ k , where each bond HamiltonianĤ k involves all interaction terms of k-th couple of delocalized electronŝ