Correlation Effect on Peierls Transition

Abstract

The effect of correlation on Peierls transition, which is accompanied by a dimerization, t_d, of a bond alternation for transfer energy, has been examined for a half-filled one-dimensional electron system with on-site repulsive interaction (U). By applying the renormalization group method to the interaction of the bosonized Hamiltonian, the dimerization has been calculated variationally and self-consistently with a fixed electron-phonon coupling constant (λ) and it is shown that t_d takes a maximum as a function of U. The result is examined in terms of charge gap and spin gap and is compared with that of the numerical simulation by Hirsch [Phys. Rev. Lett. 51 (1983) 296]. Relevance to the spin Peierls transition in organic conductors is discussed.