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Magnetic instabilities in three- and higher-dimensional Hubbard models with different lattice geometries: Impact of nonlocal spatial correlations

Marvin Leusch1, Alessandro Toschi2, Andreas Hausoel3, Giorgio Sangiovanni4, and Georg Rohringer5,1

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Phys. Rev. B 114, 125138 – Published 31 August, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/pm73-4szs

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We analyze the impact of the lattice geometry on the thermodynamic transition to magnetically ordered phases in strongly interacting electron systems for various Bravais lattices in three, four, and five dimensions, including both local and nonlocal correlation effects. In a first step we use the dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT), which takes into account purely local correlations, to calculate the magnetic susceptibilities of the Hubbard model on three- (3d-sc), four- (4d-sc), and five- dimensional (5d-sc) simple cubic/hypercubic, as well as on three- dimensional body- (bcc) and face-centered (fcc) cubic lattices, and determine the transition temperature to the corresponding magneticallyordered state. In a second step, we exploit the dynamical vertex approximation (DΓA), a diagrammatic extension of DMFT, to include the effect of nonlocal correlations which are particularly important in the vicinity of the corresponding phase transition. For the bipartite 3d-sc, 4d-sc, 5d-sc, and bcc lattices nonlocal fluctuations lead to a substantial reduction of the DMFT transition temperature consistent to the overall tendency of mean-field approaches to overestimate the stability of ordered phases. As expected, the magnitude of the difference between the DMFT, being exact in the limit of large connectivity/dimensions, and DΓA transition temperatures decreases with increasing coordination number. On a more practical perspective, these results also provide a reasonable guidance to evaluate the expected overestimation of the DMFT ordering temperature for different material geometries. For the fcc lattice, on the other hand, the ordered phase observed in DMFT vanishes completely within DΓA which is consistent with the existence of strong geometric frustration in this lattice.

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Phys. Rev. B 114, 125138– Published 31 August, 2026
  • Received 16 December 2025
  • Revised 7 June 2026
  • Accepted 11 August 2026
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