Charge instabilities of the extended attractive Hubbard Model on the cubic lattice

Abstract

The paramagnetic phase of the extended attractive Hubbard model on the cubic lattice is studied within the spin rotation invariant Kotliar-Ruckenstein slave-boson representation at zero temperature. It is obtained that the quasiparticle residue of the Fermi liquid phase vanishes for all densities at an interaction strength slightly smaller than $U_c$ that signals the Brinkman-Rice transition, and that it weakly depends on density. While for vanishing non-local interaction parameters homogeneous static charge instabilities are found in a rather narrow window centered around quarter filling and $U \simeq 0.8\ U_c$, increasing them to $V = -0.2\ U$ results into a severe narrowing of this window. On the contrary, when all interaction parameters are attractive, for example for $V = 0.2\ U$, a large parameter range in which homogeneous static charge instabilities is found. Yet, this systematically happens inside the Fermi liquid phase.