Comment on ``Electron-phonon Vertex in the Two-dimensional One-band Hubbard Model''

Abstract

In cond-mat/0306131 Huang {\em et al.} reported for the first time a numerical evidence for the predominance of small phonon momenta in the electron-phonon coupling induced by electronic correlation. They report also an upturn of the electron-phonon vertex function for small momenta as function of the Hubbard repulsion $U$ for sufficient large $U$. In this comment we compare their Quantum Monte Carlo data with analytical results based on slave-boson techniques for generic $U$. We associate the upturn of the electron-phonon vertex function with the tendency towards a phase separation instability at large temperatures.