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arXiv:1710.00648 · Physical review. B./Physical review. B

Role of three-particle vertex within dual fermion calculations

T. Ribic, Patrik Gunacker, Sergei Iskakov, Markus Wallerberger, G. Rohringer, Alexey N. Rubtsov, Emanuel Gull, Karsten Held

Published Dec 18, 2017• 33 citations
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Abstract

We investigate the influence of self-energy diagrams beyond the two-particle vertex level within dual fermion theory. Specifically, we calculate the local three-particle vertex and construct from it selected dual fermion self-energy corrections to dynamical mean field theory. For the two-dimensional Hubbard model, the thus obtained self-energy corrections are small in the parameter space where dual fermion corrections based on the two-particle vertex only are small. However, in other parts of the parameter space, they are of a similar magnitude and qualitatively different from standard dual fermion theory. The high-frequency behavior of the self-energy correction is, surprisingly, even dominated by corrections stemming from the three-particle vertex.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.96.235127

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