An intervening metallic phase at the CDW–SDW transition region in the one-dimensional Holstein-Hubbard model at half filling: a semi-exact solution

The one-dimensional Holstein–Hubbard model is analyzed at half filling at the CDW-SDW transition region by using a series of unitary transformations. The phonon degrees of freedom are eliminated by averaging the transformed Hamiltonian with respect to a generalized many-phonon state and the resulting effective electronic Hamiltonian is finally solved exactly by employing the Bethe-ansatz technique. The present variational state leads to a lower ground state energy as compared to those obtained from the previous variational calculations and yields a wider intermediate metallic phase at the SDW-CDW transition region confirming the prediction of Takada and Chatterjee.