Renormalization of the electron-spin-fluctuation interaction in the t-t'-U Hubbard model

Abstract

We study the renormalization of the electron-spin-fluctuation (el-sp) vertex in a two-dimensional Hubbard model with nearest-neighbor (t) and next-nearest-neighbor (t') hopping by a Quantum-Monte-Carlo calculation. Our results show that for t'=0, the renormalized el-sp vertex decreases quite generally with decreasing temperature at all spin-fluctuation momentum transfers. The suppression of the el-sp vertex results in a substantial reduction of the effective pairing interaction mediated by antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations in both the intermediate- and strong-correlation regimes. The inclusion of a finite t'/t<0, increases the Landau damping rate of spin fluctuations, especially in the overdoped region. The increased damping rate leads to smaller vertex corrections, in agreement with earlier diagrammatic calculations. Still, the vertex correction reduces the spin-fermion vertex, as at t'=0.