Accurate ground-state phase diagram of the one-dimensional extended Hubbard model at half filling

It has been well established that in both the weak- and strong-coupling limits, the phase transition from a spin-density wave (SDW) to a charge-density wave (CDW) in the half-filled extended-Hubbard model occurs precisely at the ratio U/V-c=2, where U and V are the on-site and intersite electron-electron interactions, respectively. However, a recent density-matrix renormalization group (DMRG) study and a previous Monte Carlo simulation jointly suggest a picture that challenges the well-established weak-coupling result. Here, a careful calculation shows such a picture is questionable. In particular, it clarifies the DMRG result, even with a moderate number of states kept in the density matrix, agrees with both the weak- and strong-coupling findings, and predicts a CDW/SDW phase boundary smoothly links those two coupling limits. Possible sources of these previous failures are discussed.