Theoretical investigation of four-body interaction in the one-dimensional extended Hubbard model

In the weak-coupling regime, we analytically investigate phase diagram of a one-dimensional half-filled extended Hubbard model with nearest neighboring four-electron interaction (Q), in addition to the usual two-electron couplings (U,V>0). The additional four-electron coupling splits independent Gaussian and spin-gap transitions and also leads to the charge-gap transition. For the positive Q, the ground state exhibits three insulating phases, charge-density-wave (CDW), spin-density-wave (SDW) and bond-spin-density-wave (BSDW). For the negative Q, the phase diagram consists of five phases, which, besides the SDW and CDW phases, contain bond-charge-density-wave (BCDW), Luttinger liquid (LL) and Luther–Emery (LE) phases.