Anomalous Transfer of Spectral Weight in Doped Strongly Correlated Systems

A qualitative and quantitative description (exact diagonalization of finite clusters) of the doping dependence of one-electron-removal and -addition spectral weights is given. A half-filled Hubbard system in the localized limit has two low-energy electron-addition (-removal) states for each hole (electron) created by doping. In contrast, a charge-transfer system in the localized limit is fundamentally asymmetric between hole and electron doping. However, when the hybridization is increased this asymmetry disappears quickly and both holes and electrons introduced by doping show a strongly correlated behavior.