The electron self-energy Sigma(k,ω) corresponding to the one-band Hubbard Hamiltonian on clusters of the square lattice has been obtained as a function of the band filling up to second order in the interaction parameter U. The k dependence of the self-energy is completely taken into account. As a consequence, the imaginary part of the self-energy shows a linear behavior for fillings close to one electron per site whereas for large doping rates the quadratic ω dependence characterizing Fermi liquids is recovered. The origin of this behavior has been investigated analytically: linear terms associated with nesting are shown to exist in any finite-dimensional lattice although its numerical relevance decreases very rapidly for space dimensionality larger than two. Implications of these results on the renormalization factor Z have been analyzed. From a practical point of view, we conclude that a standard second-order perturbative treatment is quantitatively precise for U values of the on-site Coulomb interaction smaller than the bandwidth of the noninteracting spectrum.

• Received 22 July 1993

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.48.13654