Exploring the Hubbard Model on the Square Lattice at Zero Temperature with a Bosonized Functional Renormalization Approach

Abstract

We employ the functional renormalization group to investigate the phase diagram of the $t-t'$ Hubbard model on the square lattice with finite chemical potential $\mu$ at zero temperature. A unified scheme to derive flow equations in the symmetric and symmetry broken regimes allows a consistent continuation of the renormalization flow in the symmetry broken regimes. At the transition from the symmetric regime to the symmetry broken regimes, our calculation reveals leading instabilities in the d-wave superconducting and antiferromagnetic channels. Furthermore, we find a first order transition between commensurate and incommensurate antiferromagnetism. In the symmetry broken regimes our flow equations are able to renormalize around a changing Fermi surface geometry. We find a coexistence of d-wave superconductivity and antiferromagnetism at intermediate momentum scales k. However, there is a mutual tendency of superconductivity and antiferromagnetism to repel each other at even smaller scales k, which leads to the eradication of the coexistence phase in the limit of macroscopic scales.