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tends to a constant value. According to the understanding based on the

study of the D = 00 limit, (10.74) should replace our earlier (10.14).
All the above conclusions were drawn from studying the narrow band
of low-lying excitations which appears as a sharp resonance centered
about the chemical potential. The width qW of the resonance defines
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the scale of small energies in the problem, and it is in this regime where
parallels with the Brinkman-Rice scenario can be found. However, in
contrast to the variational treatment, the DMFT does not miss the high
energy scale: roughly at the energies f U / 2 , strong bands are seen, which
describe charge excitations. These are the Hubbard subbands which we
introduced in Sec. 4.7. Loosely speaking, we can say that the reason
why we still cannot speak about a definitive analytic description of the
immediate neighbourhood of the Mott transition is that such results as
we have, had to rely on a clear separation of low- and high-energy scales,
and this cannot be taken for granted.
Coming away from half-filling, the system - when non-ordered - is
found to be a Fermi liquid at all interaction strengths. For a fixed U >
Uc,, the effective mass appears to diverge as half-filling is approached
[189]. We have already commented upon the T2-behaviour of the low-
temperature resistivity in Sec. 10.5.

Phase Diagram
The combination of QMC with other techniques holds the eventual
promise of mapping out the finite-temperature phase diagram of various
infinite-dimensional Hubbard models, but more work has to be done be-
fore a generally accepted picture could emerge. Let us first consider the
status of the large-U effective models because these should be relevant
for establishing connection with many finite-dimensional results. At
half-filling, the connection with the antiferromagnetic D = 00 Heisen-
berg model is unproblematic: J 0: t 2 / U 1 / D gives finite ordering
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energy densities, because the number of neighbours is33 cx D . On the

other hand, away from half-filling we have a difficulty with constructing
a well-behaved t-J model, because J / t 0; ( l / D ) ( l / f i ) - ' oc l/a.
33Actually, this does not hold for tightly packed lattices. To cite a counter-example,
the fcc lattice has z a D(D - l ) , and needs a special consideration.