Strong-Coupling Expansion for the Hubbard Model

A strong-coupling expansion for models of correlated electrons in any dimension is presented. The method is applied to the one-dimensional Hubbard model and compared with numerical results. Third order expansion of the Green function suffices to exhibit both the Mott metal-insulator transition and a low-temperature regime where antiferromagnetic correlations are strong. It is predicted that some of the weak photoemission signals observed in one-dimensional systems such as $SrCuO_2$ should become stronger as temperature increases away from the spin-charge separated state.